Can telephone wires go under the sea??

MRsnail | 01:55 Mon 26th Dec 2011 | How it Works

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been reading about the cold war and it appears they can am I just being thick or did everyone else know this all along lol

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Maidup

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Yes we're connected to France, The Netherlands, Ireland and the US by submarine cables. I think the first ones were across the channel in 1850-ish

More info here........

http://en.wikipedia.o..._communications_cable

02:02 Mon 26th Dec 2011

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MarkRae

http://en.wikipedia.o..._communications_cable

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MRsnail

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wow thank u - I must be going round with wool over my eyes , which is worrying as i am such an avid reader.

EDDIE51

How did you think telephone calls could be made outside the UK (as we are an island) before the satellite age? It would need very tall telephone poles to cross the sea !

Old Salt

Good Morning MRsnail

I shouldn't worry too much about missing the obvious.

Sometimes, even I, "Couldn't see the cable for the seas"

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Hopkirk

Here is an interactive map of them

http://www.cablemap.info/

old-wos-is-name

and when they laid the first cables on the sea bed they discovered that the bottom of the ocean wasn't quite as flat as they expected, and they used to mark the end of the cable mid-ocean with a buoy, go back to port for some more cable and go back out and find the buoy. no sattelite navigation, just a good old compass, pretty clever lads.