Heart’s Content, Newfoundland (WHTM) After a 14 day voyage across the Atlantic, The S.S. Great Eastern, the largest ship in the world, arrived in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. On board, a very precious ...
A Russian cargo vessel that spent 14 hours anchored less than a mile from five transatlantic undersea data cables had to be chased out of British waters by a Royal Navy attack helicopter this week, ...
In 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph cable connected Europe and North America — and history was never the same. For the first time, empires could speak in near real-time across oceans. It was a ...
Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters. Hayley Brazier In summer 2022, I was performing research in the archives of the National Museum of American History when I read ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The completion of the first ...