SYMHC Classics: Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This 2016 episode touches on the establishment of a submarine telegraph cable to connect North America and Europe. It took ingenuity, but more than anything else, it required tenacity.

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0:00.0	They say history is written by the victors, but you know what?
0:03.9	They've left out a hell of a lot of juicy stuff.
0:07.4	Ah, we all know who invented that, right?
0:09.9	We'll think again.
0:11.0	Truth is, Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea for the telephone
0:15.1	and then claimed it is his own.
0:16.8	We're gonna uncover the forgotten pieces of history.
0:19.6	You didn't know you needed to know.
0:21.8	Listen to the backstory with me, Patty Steele.
0:24.3	Twice a week on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts,
0:27.8	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Hello, hello, mountain global here.
0:32.0	This year on Revisionist History, we're tackling more ambitious stories than ever.
0:37.4	From how to fix education to what Americans get completely wrong about guns,
0:42.0	we're debating with teenagers, handing out awards, and hunting for the perfect medical.
0:47.8	Raccoon.
0:48.7	This is, after all, a podcast about the overlooked and missudem stood.
0:53.2	Find Revisionist History on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:59.3	podcasts.
1:30.1	Happy Saturday, 165 years ago, today.
1:37.6	Crews finished laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable, and then the first successful
1:46.8	communication was sent along that cable a few days later.
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