Industrial Age · North America · Technology
1866
Transatlantic Cable
July 27, 1866
After several fiascos, the steamship Great Eastern laid a working telegraph cable the whole way from Ireland to Newfoundland. Messages that had taken ten days by ship now took minutes. Queen Victoria and President Johnson exchanged polite telegrams. The oceans of the world had, for communication, been quietly and permanently shrunk.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.