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What was the first transtatlantic telegragh cable?

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Five attempts to lay a cable were made over a nine-year period-in 1857, two in 1858, in 1865, and in 1866-before lasting connections were finally achieved by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern captained by Sir James Anderson, with the 1866 cable and the repaired 1865 cable.[1]

Additional cables were laid between Foilhommerum and Heart's Content in 1873, 1874, 1880, and 1894. By the end of the 19th century, British-, French-, German-, and American-owned cables linked Europe and North America in a sophisticated web of telegraphic communications.

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