Comment by JumpCrisscross
6 months ago
“The first submarine cable, strung across the English Channel in 1850, survived for a single day before — in what may be apocryphal cable industry slander — a French eel fisherman accidentally hooked it, sliced off a piece, and came ashore bragging about his discovery of a new type of metal seaweed.”
It’s amazing it worked. Especially “electrical” non fiber optic cables.
There is a museum on cape cod which was the end point of some early electrical cables (1891). It’s kind of interesting.
https://www.frenchcablestationmuseum.org/
Of course eclipsed by the wireless Marconi station..