Even the transatlantic cable had only about 50 messages in a day shortly after it opened in 1866, far less than its theoretical capacity. A key reason was cost. The initial rate in 1866 for ...

The First Attempts to Lay the Transatlantic Cable (1857-1858 ... to discover what had gone wrong. The Second Cable-Laying Attempt (1865-1866): After the failure of the 1858 cable, several ...

Siamsa Tíre Tralee will run a new drama that explores a family story set against a historic moment that took place in Kerry.

In 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph cable connected Europe and North America — and history was never the same. For the first time, empires could speak in near real-time across oceans.