• The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858

    The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858
    The word wireless is going the way of computerized and portable, and for much the same reasons. We no longer regard wireless devices that require no physical connections to anything else as marvels, but as something close to necessities. But our age, with its increasingly common assumptions that information just travels through the air, owes its existence to wires — and, in a historical sense, to one set of wires in particular, whose story is told in the Primal Space video above.

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