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Connecting to the Future

  • December 3, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

When the trans-Atlantic cable was completed in 1866, it linked telegraph communications between North America and Europe for the first time. Before the cable, a message took about 10 days to travel by ship. After the cable, it took about 10 minutes!

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