{"id":3733,"date":"2013-08-05T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T23:18:12","slug":"first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1932\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1933\" title=\"Cyrus West Field\" alt=\"Cyrus West Field\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cdce0__CyrusField-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>August 5, 1858<\/p>\n<p>After four failed attempts, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCyrus_West_Field\" target=\"_blank\">American merchant Cyrus West Field<\/a> succeeds in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Fthis-day-in-history%2Ffirst-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed\" target=\"_blank\">completing the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable<\/a>. Completed approximately <a title=\"Crossing the Atlantic With Cable\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2012%2F06%2F10%2Fcrossing-the-atlantic-with-cable%2F\">two months after construction began<\/a>, the cable is\u00a0only operational for just over a month. However, this cable proved the feasibility of transatlantic communications and\u00a0Cyrus West Field\u00a0raised new funds to complete the first permanent telegraph line in 1866.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F08%2F04%2Fnasa-launches-phoenix%2F\" rel=\"prev\">NASA Launches Phoenix<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cdce0__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/05\/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 5, 1858 After four failed attempts, American merchant Cyrus West Field succeeds in\u00a0completing the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable. Completed approximately two months after construction began, the cable is\u00a0only operational for just over a month. However, this cable proved the feasibility of transatlantic communications and\u00a0Cyrus West Field\u00a0raised new funds to complete the first permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[921,1460,399,1459,1458],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-cable","tag-completed","tag-first","tag-telegraph","tag-transatlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}