Today the world can communicate with text, images, audio, and video at the speed of light.

Most of this is done via undersea fiber optic cables which connect the various continents to each other.

All of this modern long distance communication had it start with the

first Transatlantic Telegraph cable, the first long-distance submarine communications

cable which connected Europe and North America in 1858.

Learn more about the ambitious 19th century project,

which reduced the time of information across the Atlantic from days to minutes

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While it may not seem like it now, the Telegraph was more revolutionary than the telephone, the fax machine, or even the internet.

Prior to the invention of the Telegraph, information couldn't travel faster than the person who carried it.

Advances in information transfer were the same as advances in transportation.

The slowness of transmitting information led to enormous legs between people being notified about wars ending or beginning.

The Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 was famously fought after the treaty ending the war had been signed.

The idea behind the telegraph began almost as soon as electricity was harnessed.

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