Simply a cable through which telegraph signals were sent. It was heavy, copper and wound with lots of insulation of rubber and pitch.
Gutta Percha is a flexible rubber-like material. It was used as an outside coating for the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was invented and constructed because of Cyrus West Field and the Atlantic Telegraph Company. It took four years to complete, 1854 to 1858.
The Atlantic cable was put on the bottom of the ocean floor by ships to transfer telegraph messages in 1864.
The idea of a transatlantic telegraph cable was introduced my Samuel Morse himself in 1840. Fourteen years later in 1858, The Atlantic Telegraph Company behind the guidance of Cyrus West Field completed the first transatlantic telegraph cabe. It connected Newfoundland to Ireland.
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It was a telegraph cable laid in August 1850 by the Anglo-French Telegraph Company, owned by John Watkins Brett. Running from Dover to Calais, it was made of copper coated in gutta-percha.
The transatlantic telegraph cable.
Telecommunication is communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone, or broadcasting. Cables are used for telecommunication. Telegraph is one form of telecommunication.