OT: 1866 Engineering Effort

Long distance communications history and much of the reason we (from distant areas of the planet) are able to communicate (in literally seconds) today:

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cable/timeline/index.html">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cable/timeline/index.html</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable#Communication_speeds">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable#Communication_speeds</a>

Paul Received on Sat Mar 03 02:02:00 2007