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Today the world can communicate with text, images, audio, and video at the speed of light. Most of this is done via undersea fiber optic cables which connect the various continents to each other.

All of this modern long-distance communication has its start with the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The first long-distance submarine communications cable which connected Europe and North America in 1858.

Learn more about the ambitious 19th-century project which reduced the time of information to cross the Atlantic from days to minutes, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Executive Producer James Makkyla

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