In 1866 a single undersea cable finally held across the Atlantic, and a message that once took eleven days by ship crossed the ocean in minutes — the moment the world first felt small

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On 27 July 1866, the cable-laying ship Great Eastern reached Heart’s Content in Newfoundland with an unbroken telegraph line trailing back across the Atlantic to Valentia Island in Ireland. For the first time, Europe and North America had a communications link built to last. The distance had not changed. Ships still faced the same ocean. [...] The post In 1866 a single undersea cable finally held across the Atlantic, and a message that once took eleven days by ship crossed the ocean in minutes — the moment the world first felt small appeared first on Space Daily .