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A Thread Across the Ocean traces the challenges and triumphs of the 1866 transatlantic telegraph cable project, which united the distant United States with Europe's political core. John Steele Gordon details how this monumental engineering feat cut communication times and reshaped global interaction in the 19th century.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: John Steele Gordon
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