THE TRANS-ATLANTIC telegraph cable that connected Rye Beach, New Hampshire, with Europe and the greater world operated for 47 years (from 1875 to 1922).
ON SEPT. 5, 1875, a new undersea telegraph cable began transmitting messages in Morse Code between the United States and Europe. The line linked Rye Beach, New Hampshire with Ballinskelligs, Ireland, by way of Tor Bay, Nova Scotia, a distance of around 3,400 miles.
