The Telegraph - a wire around the world (original) (raw)

It's now fifteen years since the internet began to transform the way we communicate. But the beginning of the age of modern communication was over 150 years ago when the telegraph began to spread around the world. For Australia, so isolated by distance, this wonderful new technology had a huge impact, connecting the far reaches of the globe. Paul Davies retraces one of the great engineering achievements of the 19th century.

History, Computer Science