Modern Marvels Season 1 Episode 6

The price of a telegram to Europe in 1866 was $1.25 per word. Today, allowing for inflation, it is 60 times cheaper.

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.

A portion of Field's original cable was recently pulled from the ocean. Though over 100 years old it could still conduct electricity.

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.