Transatlantic cables of the line of Valentia (Ireland) Newfoundland (American) Designed Templates of natural size in elevation and in section. Left to right, 1858, 1865, 1869. A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland.

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Transatlantic Cable Design Templates, 1850-1860s

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