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The First Transatlantic Cable: Storms, Snapped Wires & the Madman Who Wired the World (Sleep Story)
In the 1850's, a paper salesman with no engineering background decided he would lay an electric wire across the entire floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and almost everyone who actually understood electricity told him it was impossible.
Tonight on Sleepless History, settle in for the full, sprawling true story of the First Transatlantic Cable: the obsessive vision of Cyrus Field, the clash between a careful Scottish physicist and a reckless self-taught electrician, the strange ocean-proof gutta-percha cable that weighed over a ton per mile, and the two warships gutted and refitted just to carry it…
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