World History Minute: The Atlantic Cable Completed
By WorldviewWorld History Minute: The Atlantic Cable Completed
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For most of history, people could communicate only as fast as someone could physically carry a message, but that all changed on August 5th 1858, when the Atlantic telegraph cable was completed.
Once the United States and Great Britain teamed up to lay a cable for electronic messages, the world became a much smaller place. Historian John Schmidt tells us how that came about.