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Episode 32 - The First Transoceanic Cable

EPISODE · Sep 28, 2017 · 37 MIN

Episode 32 - The First Transoceanic Cable

from The Natural Curiosity Project · host Dr. Steven Shepard

The first submarine communications cable was laid across the northern Atlantic in the 1800s. The project was plagued by intrigue, sabotage, nasty winter storms, and the fact that there was no ship in existence at the time that could hold all the cable required to cross the ocean. What to do?

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