Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age Portfolio Whidbey reads like a thriller

Whidbey reads like a thriller

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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age Portfolio Whidbey reads like a thrillerThe thrilling story of the nineteenth centurys moonshot: An Atlantic spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world. In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000 mile telegraph cable across the Atlantic. Nothing like it had ever been attempted, and Field knew nothing about electricity, telegraphy, ships, or oceans. But he believed that wiring the world for near instantaneous communication would