I read it when it was first published. It is an amazing story of huge technological risk, massive capital investment, and triumph over adversity and failure to build the first transoceanic underwater cable linking Europe and North America.
I was unaware of the "battery wagons" mentioned in this article. I knew of the importance of telegraphy in the CW, but never thought about mobile telegraphy.
Have read one of the first act in WW1 was cutting Germany’s
Trans Atlantic cable,forcing them to use radio.
Thanks for the book recommendation.