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William Watson an English scientist conducted an experiment depicting the flow of electricity between two jars coated with metal material.
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Field joins his brothers papre company of leaving his apprenticeship, after some finacial troubles and no real value from investment, field acquires his brothers company and makes a complete turnaround. Now making a profit that well exceeds $200,000. (Worth a lot during that time period.)
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Inventor Samuel Morse places runs an electric current through a wire across New York harbor. In December he sends messages by wire between two committee rooms in the U.S. Capitol. Congress eventually takes a step to spend $30,000 towards construction of a telegraph line.
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Portuguese engineer Jose d'Almeida discovers the sap of the gutta tree. He finds it to be a hard yet flexible substance, extremely ideal for insulating electrical cables, much like the rubber we use today.
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The Whig National Convention in Baltimore sends a message via a telegraph wire to washington 64 minutes before a train carrying physical results of the convention nominees arrives. Morse set up and read the results.
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A foreshadowing message from Morse via the recently completed telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore says, "What Had God Wrought".
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Head of the Telegraph Company surveys Newfoundlands Southern Coast in order to decide and prepare the land for the construction of another cable.
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The U.S.S. Dolphin "sounds" the 1,600 mile long route between Newfoundland and Ireland, discovering that the underwater land formations are all flat, ideal for the placement of a new cable or extension.
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The First set of messages are relayed, and the first cable is established, the works of Field, and the advancement of technology has taken a great leap.
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The ability to send telegraphs through a telegraph system proves vital to winning the Civil War.
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The Great Eastern reches it's first destination, completing a cable between America and Europe. Many messages, political, personal, and commercial are being sent back and forth
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The Great Eastern Connects The 1865 Cable to Newfoundland, this results in two working cables, sending and receiving messages.
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Field receives the highest medal awarded to any civilian of the United States, a Congressional Gold Medal for his actions that resulted in the succesful establishment of two fully functioning cables that could relay messages across the known world.
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After a few failures, challenges, and repairs, a cable is finally laid through australia through Singapore, adding the length of the cable, now spanning through not only the Atlantic but now the Pacific Ocean.
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At age 72 Field the inventor and overseer of the Trans-Atlantic Cable dies, his contributions to society and development of an industrial and modern world can never be refuted or remodeled, Field is laid to rest in Stockbridge, near a church where his late father used to preach.
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The completion of a line from British Columbia to New Zealand, telegraph cable spans the length of the entire planet.
