Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age

Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information AgeIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000 mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and science itself still lacked a universal theory of electricity. But he believed that wiring the world for near instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. In 1866, after enduring over a decade

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