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These days we are soaccustomed to telegraphmessages that it is hard for us toimagine the excitement that wasfelt in the nineteenth century whenthe first cables were laid.Cable laying proved to beimmensely difficult.The cablewhich in the autumn of 1850carried the first telegraph messagesbetween England and France hada very short life.The day after,afisherman ‘caught’ the cable by
These days we are soaccustomed to telegraphmessages that it is hard for us toimagine the excitement that wasfelt in the nineteenth century whenthe first links were laid. Cable laying proved to beimmensely difficult. The cablewhich in the autumn of 1850carried the first telegraph messagesbetween England and France hada very short life.The day after, afisherman ’caught’ the cable by