Cyrus West Field was the force behind the first transatlantic telegraph cable, attempted unsuccessfully in 1857 and completed on August 5, 1858
Fredrick Newton Gisborne actually invented it in 1858.
Many people were involved in the first Atlantic Cable project from its beginnings in 1854 until the successful conclusion in 1866, but Cyrus West Field is generally acknowledged as the force behind it.
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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.
The first transatlantic telephone cable was completed in 1956
Cyrus W. Field invented the first transatlantic telephone cable.
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There are many underwater telephone lines and even more newer communications lines. The first Transatlantic cable however connected an island in western Ireland with a location in eastern Newfoundland.
The Impact of the transatlantic cable was that cable could bring messages across the ocean and to Europe and all of the world . Now the people back then could communicate through this cable which it is connect by a wire to a telephone which later invented Samuel Morse.
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.
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