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Roots of internet infrastructure are under the ocean — and date to the mid-1800s

Throughline's Ramtin Arablouei speaks with Bill Burns and Cyrus Field IV on the makings of the first transatlantic cable. What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not ...
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Cyrus W. Field renews his wedding vows and an international love for submarine telegraphy

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Two documents reveal the high tech significance of merchant and entrepreneur Cyrus W. Field's anniversary party, 124 years ago today. Connie ...
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Copy of Bronze Congressional Medal for Cyrus Field

This object is a bronze copy of a gold medal presented to Cyrus Field in 1867. Field's daughter Isabella loaned the original to the Smithsonian from 1899 to 1903. Curator George C. Maynard described ...
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Roots of internet infrastructure are under the ocean -- and date to the mid-1800s

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. The roots of this crucial and often fragile oceanic ...