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May 2022

12m 8s

Transatlantic Communications

BEDTIME HISTORY

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Learn about the project to connect North America and Europe by first laying telegraph cables across the Atlantic Ocean, and from this early project to the modern fiber optic cables that connect the continents by the Internet.

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