Subaquatic message | Techday, November 13th
On this TECHDAY in history, on November 13th 1851, the world’s first operational subaquatic telegraph cable carried a public message. It was a project developed chiefly by British John Watkins Brett (a telegraph engineer). The cable connected the city of Dover on the English side with the city of Calais on the French side, and it utilized the most narrow point of the English channel/ la Manche.
The Welsh-American electrical engineer and inventor worked on early attempts to transmit telegraph messages across the Atlantic Ocean. However, it was not him who sent the first transatlantic telegraph message. It was sent by U.S. inventor Samuel Morse on July 27, 1866. It was sent from the Poldhu Telegraph Station in Cornwall, England, to the Signal Hill station in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, and read, “What hath God wrought?”
Although Breck did not achieve the first transatlantic telegraph message, his work in this field was a significant step in the development of transatlantic telegraphy. He died in 1867 at the age of 33, but his contributions to the field of telegraphy were acknowledged by his colleagues and peers.
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