The first transatlantic cable was far from tatty…

The first transatlantic cable was far from tatty

Geek’s Guide to Britain  A cabled telegram first crossed the Atlantic in 1858, but it took almost a century for voice calls to follow, being carried by the TAT-1 Cable which landed at Oban in Scotland where we went along to see it.…

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