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Cross-section of a cable, 1867 Map of Western Union telegraph lines, 1900 Undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea, 2020 Employees installing the undersea cable SEA-ME-WE 5 Divers using a drill to secure a cable to a rock head Employees overseeing production of undersea cables, China, 2024
Follow a sea plow burying a fibre optic cable with repeaters for efficient information transmission
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Also Known As marine cable • submarine cable

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Cross-section of a cable, 1867
Map of Western Union telegraph lines, 1900
Undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea, 2020
Employees installing the undersea cable SEA-ME-WE 5
Divers using a drill to secure a cable to a rock head
Employees overseeing production of undersea cables, China, 2024
Follow a sea plow burying a fibre optic cable with repeaters for efficient information transmission
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Sir Charles Tilston Bright, detail of a lithograph, 1850
Sir Charles Tilston Bright
British engineer
Clarence Mackay, 1925
Clarence Hungerford Mackay
American philanthropist