The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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Driven to succeed yet patient in times of failure, Cyrus Field kept the cable project going for twelve long years, crossing the Atlantic more than 30 times.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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A Naval officer and pioneer in the emerging field of oceanography, Matthew Fontaine Maury was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the Seas."
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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Dr. Edward Whitehouse served as the Atlantic Telegraph Company's electrician during the laying of the first transatlantic cable.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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Gutta-percha, a natural plastic extracted from trees in Southeast Asia, sparked a craze in Victorian England, leading to its use in everything from golf balls to ear trumpets.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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Before new technologies could be fully utilized, a new vocabulary would have to be created to describe them.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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The first attempts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland were fraught with bad luck and repeated setbacks.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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A chance "eureka moment" by a Scottish physicist solved a problem that had plagued the transatlantic cable.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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When the first transatlantic cable was successfully laid in the summer of 1858, two continents buzzed with the promise of instant communication.
The Great Transatlantic Cable |
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After the first transatlantic cable failed in 1858, a committee of inquiry was formed to investigate.
The Telephone |
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Inventions include the can opener, blue jeans, frisbee, feather duster, gas mask, oil burner and blood bank.
The Telephone |
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From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.
The Telephone |
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Find out more about Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Thomas Alva Edison and Thomas A. Watson
