Throughline producers Lawrence Wu and Devin Katayama discuss the discoveries and delights of making our episode about the ...

Heart’s Content, Newfoundland (WHTM) After a 14 day voyage across the Atlantic, The S.S. Great Eastern, the largest ship in the world, arrived in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. On board, a very precious ...

ON MAY 24, 1844, the artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first official telegraph message transmitted in the United States, “What hath God wrought?” This simple Biblical quote would test ...

Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters. Hayley Brazier In summer 2022, I was performing research in the archives of the National Museum of American History when I read ...

"This book is a testament to the intimate, mutual embrace of mathematics and physics. It achieves that by telling the story of an historical event of tremendous impact upon society, both spiritually ...

1866, Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. 1909, during the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, ...

An online auction will be held to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Valentia Cable Station on Valentia Island off the coast of Co. Kerry, where the first-ever transatlantic ...

After the first transatlantic cable failed in 1858, a committee of inquiry was formed to investigate. The group conducted a thorough review of the project that exposed problems with the science behind ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Transatlantic cable equipment, an Arts and Crafts garden with gnomes and elves and an “exceptionally” rare shipwreck are among the unusual heritage protected in 2025. Government heritage agency ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The completion of the first ...