Friday, January 7, 2011

On This Date

Continuing the communication technology theme from yesterday, on January 7, 1927, exactly 89 years and one day after Samuel Morse successfully tested the electrical telegraph, the first transatlantic telephone line was established between New York and London.

Consider, once again, how communication technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the 80 or so years since then.

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