There were many different technological advances in the 1860s. The submarine was invented, the first transatlantic telegraph cable was created between Europe and America, dynamite was invented, and the modern periodic table was developed.
Simple answer... Cyrus Field was the first to lay the first tranatlantic telegraph cable connecting the US and Britian... No longer did it take 2 or 3 weeks for a message to get from America to Europe .... a message could be sent in a matter of minutes...
British spies intercepted the telegram and gave it to the US government.Important telegrams were transmitted over long cables back then (they could be sent by radio, but then anyone with a radio could pick it up). Britain had cut Germany's cables to North America at the start of the war, so Germany asked to borrow the American cables; President Wilson agreed to allow it. But the American cable ran through part of Britain; British spies easily tapped into the cable and recorded everything that went through it- including Germany's telegrams. So the British caught the Zimmermann telegram when it was sent, and very quickly decoded it- the Germans had an elaborate code system that they thought was unbreakable, but the British had broken it early in the war.However, the British didn't want Germany to know that the codes were broken- as long as Germany didn't know, they would keep using the code and the British could keep reading their secret messages. So the British had to find another way to "prove" how they got the message without revealing the secret. They knew that the telegram would have to be transmitted through a certain office in Mexico, so they basically bribed someone in that office to give them a copy of the decoded telegram. Because the telegram had gone through American cables before being relayed to Mexico, the Americans would be able to tell that it was authentic.Once that was done, and the British were satisfied that the Germans still didn't know the codes were broken, the British gave the telegram to the American government; the Americans indeed verified that it had been transmitted, and President Wilson was furious.
"Elisha Otis invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in 1854." (www.wikipedia.com)
I would switch over to Dish Network. They are much cheaper than cable. You should also get Vonage for your phone or get the Magic Jack.
The advantage of the transatlantic cable was that it took less time to transmit messages. In 1866 a voyage across the Atlantic could take months, so sending letters and getting answers could take over months. the transatlantic cable could transmit 1 word every 10 min which was a great improvement in communication devices the first message sent with the transatlantic cable was from Queen Victoria to president James Buchanan and it took 16h30min to transmit a 99 word message.
Cyrus Field led the establishment of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The first transatlantic message was received in 1858, but the cable stopped working after about 3 weeks. This cable was replaced by a new cable that was successfully laid in 1866 after five earlier attempts dating back to 1857.
The first transatlantic telephone cable was completed in 1956
President James Buchanan on August 16, 1858.
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The laying of the transatlantic cable. <----- novanet answer.
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The Transatlantic Cable was important because it reduced the time taken to communicate across the Atlantic exponentially. The success of the cable is also said to have inspired the rise of the Internet.
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