If you like a bit of cable history, cable stories and cable ships back to 1850s and earlier.... http://atlantic-cable.com
A great collection of historical international cable maps at http://atlantic-cable.com/Maps/ (dating back to WAY before Telegeography maps!) Before the "All Red Line" (1902) was the "Australia China Telegraph" of 1859, branching off the Australia-India route at Singapore, heading up to Hong Kong. http://atlantic-cable.com/Maps/1859AustraliaMap.jpg and of course, circling back to the topic at hand - national security concerns go back quite a way... 1898 Cable-Cutting At Cienfuegos <http://atlantic-cable.com//Article/1898CubaCablesCut/index.htm> - article by Lieutenant Cameron McR. Winslow on the US Navy expedition to cut Cuba’s submarine cables during the Spanish-American War Paul. On 28/07/2017 11:14 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > --- [email protected] wrote: > From: Bevan Slattery <[email protected]> > > For those that like a bit of cable history (I do). I've also got some of > the original minutes... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line > ---------------------------------------- > > Me, too. This is a fun read: > > https://www.amazon.com/Thread-Across-Ocean-Heroic-Transatlantic/dp/0060524464 > > scott > >
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