The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid across the ocean floor from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland in 1858. The authorities of the time made a good show of blaming faulty manufacture and storage for the cable's failure after only three weeks of transmitting. No one seems to discuss the fact that all subsequent cables, the ones that lasted, were placed significantly further south, requiring significantly longer cable and a great deal of additional expense.
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