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Also Known As submarine cable • marine cable

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World map displaying the global network of undersea cables, shown as dense red lines connecting continents across major oceans. Insets highlight detailed cable routes in regions such as Europe, the Caribbean, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Asia, illustrating the extensive web of submarine communication links.
Cross-section of a cable, 1867
Map of Western Union telegraph lines, 1900
Undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea, 2020
Workers in safety gear pull a thick undersea cable onto a sandy shore, with yellow floats attached; a large cable ship, Teliri, is visible on the water in the background.
Divers using a drill to secure a cable to a rock head
Two employees in blue uniforms and red helmets work beside large coils of black and yellow undersea cable inside a factory at Qingdao Hanhe Cable Co., Ltd. in China.
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