print email comment close The Great Transatlantic Cable URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cable/ Description: Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary about the undersea cable placed between the U.S. and Britain in the 1860s to allow telegraph contact. Features a timeline, cable jokes, and details about people and events, such as Cyrus Field ("father of the transatlantic cable"), Matthew Fontaine Maury (the person who calculated the cable route), and natural plastic gutta-percha that insulated the cable. Also includes a teacher's guide and transcript. Publisher: PBS Online; WGBH Extra Keywords telecommunications LII Database Information: Record 25387 created by Maria Brandt on 02/04/2008 Last modification on 02/06/2008 Published: 02/07/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25387