{"id":14370,"date":"2017-11-13T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-underwater-telegraph-cable\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T23:16:38","slug":"first-underwater-telegraph-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-underwater-telegraph-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"First Underwater Telegraph Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JohnWBrett-i_s.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3927]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3928\" alt=\"JohnWBrett-i_s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/15d95__JohnWBrett-i_s-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/15d95__JohnWBrett-i_s-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JohnWBrett-i_s.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>November 13, 1851<\/p>\n<p>Laid by British\u00a0telegraphic engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/atlantic-cable.com\/CablePioneers\/Brett\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">John Watkins Brett<\/a> and his brother Jacob Brett, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofinformation.com\/expanded.php?id=59\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s first operational underwater telegraph cable opens for business<\/a>. Connecting the English city of Dover to the French city of Calais, the cable was ran at the narrowest point of the English channel. With this link, communication between London and Paris was made possible.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/13\/first-underwater-telegraph-cable\/\">First Underwater Telegraph Cable<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/13\/first-underwater-telegraph-cable\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 13, 1851 Laid by British\u00a0telegraphic engineer John Watkins Brett and his brother Jacob Brett, the world&#8217;s first operational underwater telegraph cable opens for business. Connecting the English city of Dover to the French city of Calais, the cable was ran at the narrowest point of the English channel. With this link, communication between London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[921,399,1459,1233],"class_list":["post-14370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-cable","tag-first","tag-telegraph","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}