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The price of a telegram to Europe in 1866 was $1.25 per word. Today, allowing for inflation, it is 60 times cheaper.
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After the failure of the cable Field was villified by the public. Many believed he was a charlatan, aquaintances crossed the street to avoid him.
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A portion of Field's original cable was recently pulled from the ocean. Though over 100 years old it could still conduct electricity.
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From the time he had the idea for the Transatlantic Cable, it took Cyrus Field just three months to organize a company and raise the money.
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Dr. Bernard S. Finn
Curator, Electrical Collection, Smithsonian InstitutionHayden Moore
Consultant/Advisor, Submarine Cable SystemsCyrus W. Field IV
Great great GrandsonDr. Roger McGrath
Professor of History, UCLADr. Sheldon Hochheiser
Corporate Historian, AT&TFrank Denniston
Bell Atlantic Chief Engineer, FLAG
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