# Cyrus Field
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Story of the Transatlantic Cable
On this episode of Our American Stories, Miles and miles of wire placed on ships and thrown into the ocean connected the world like never before and would help determine the outcomes of World Wars and beyond. John Steele Gordan tells the story of how the Transatlantic Cable came to be.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Part 2 - Chapter 20
Join Host Bree Carlile as she reads the forty-third chapter of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Come with us as we release one bite a day of one of your favorite classic novels, plays & short stories. Bree reads these classics like she reads to her daughter, one chapter a day. If you love boo…
SYMHC Classics: Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
This 2016 episode touches on the establishment of a submarine telegraph cable to connect North America and Europe. It took ingenuity, but more than anything else, it required tenacity.
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The Transatlantic Cable: A Thread Across the Ocean
On this episode of Our American Stories, historian John Steele Gordon tells the story of how the telegraph went from Samuel Morse to winning WWI and how one man spearheaded the effort to connect America to Great Britain and, in doing so, the rest of the world.
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The Transatlantic Telegraph: Lord Kelvin, Wildman Whitehouse, and Cyrus W. Field
This week Matt brings us another tale of daring innovation: the attempt to connect the old and new worlds by wire! Cyrus W Field successfully tests connecting Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before engineers Lord Kelvin and Wildman Whitehouse are faced with engineering disasters including storms, snap…
God Looks After Fools, Drunks and the United States: John Steele Gordon on How Information Technology United America
“Nobody has ever made money selling America short. We’re an extraordinary country.” — John Steele Gordon
To honor America’s semiquincentennial birthday, the Wall Street Journal has been celebrating the most impactful American inventions of all time:
1. Internet
2. Light bulb
3. Integrated circu…
The Wire That Connected the World
August 17, 1858. New York City wakes to a hundred-gun salute. Church bells ring, flags fly from public buildings, and by nightfall, fireworks light up the sky. The city is celebrating a telegram from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan. Not what it says, but how it traveled: along a 2,000-mile cab…
Transatlantic Cable: Birth of the Internet? | Episode # 10
Today's story is about the first time in human history that two continents could talk to each other in minutes instead of weeks, and you're about to find out how badly, and how many times, it all went wrong before it went right. The laying of the first ever Transatlantic Cable is a story meant for …
August 5, 2026: The Wire Under the Ocean
Four failed attempts and a near bankruptcy didn't stop him. A fifth try, and one soaked, sleepless night, finally did the job.
On August 4, 1858, the Niagara reached Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and the next morning, August 5, the Agamemnon landed the shore end of the cable at Valentia Island, Irelan…
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