The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable – The Birth of Global Communications

Lecture

About this event

In the mid-1800's the Lancashire Cotton industry dominated the world market for finished cotton goods pieces.  However, since cotton was not grown in the UK it had to be imported which generated significant trade across the Atlantic.  This and other industries therefore drove a business case for improved global communications and from that a desire to link the telegraph networks of the UK and USA with a copper cable under the Atlantic.  Nothing on this scale had been attempted before and so this lecture tells the heroic story of the engineers and businessmen who battled numerous setbacks to deliver this pioneering achievement. The lecture goes on to show how the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable then spawned a revolution that delivered the world's first global network that had encircled the planet by 1902 and which now in the 21st century has evolved to transport over 95% of all of our Internet and global telephone traffic.  

Additional information

Contact Gordon Nicholas, tel: 0151 336 7143
or email: gordon.nicholas@btinternet.com
Ample free parking
Refreshments from 6pm
Visitors welcome
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Prior registration is requested but not mandatory