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Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Project

It Took Four Years to Complete the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Project. A Parade was Held in New Your City to Celebrate the Occasion.

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Today, copper and fiber-optic cables carrying data under the ocean between countries enable instant global communication. But did you know how long it took to install the first transatlantic telegraph cable? On September 1, 1857, New York held a parade to commemorate the first transatlantic telegraph cable installation. It took four years to complete the […]

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Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London’s sewers in the 1860’s, said ‘Well, we’re only going to do this once and there’s always the unforeseen’ and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960’s (its still in use today).

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Joseph Bazalgette Joseph Bazalgette in the 1870s Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (/ˈbæzəldʒɛt/; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London’s Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewer network for central

Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London’s sewers in the 1860’s, said ‘Well, we’re only going to do this once and there’s always the unforeseen’ and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960’s (its still in use today). Read More »

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