{"id":442,"date":"2012-07-18T03:08:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=442"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:25:37","slug":"%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00b7 \u00b7 \u00b7 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 \u00b7 \u00b7 \u00b7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/Cable-Station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-443\" title=\"Cable Station\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/Cable-Station-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/Cable-Station-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/Cable-Station-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/Cable-Station-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/Cable-Station.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While in Newfoundland last week I stumbled upon this cable station and learned the story of a man who&#8217;s dream it was to run a cable clear across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seethesites.ca\/the-sites\/heart%27s-content-cable-station.aspx\">Heart&#8217;s Content Cable Station<\/a> is a provincial historic site, where, after a few mishaps, Cyrus Field&#8217;s telegraph cable reached out to Valencia, Ireland. Cables were already in place across America, which allowed for messages to be spelled out in <a href=\"http:\/\/morsecode.scphillips.com\/translator.html\">Morse code<\/a> (a series of dots and dashes) by telegraph, but before 1866 you would have had to wait patiently for weeks for messages to travel to Europe and back by sea (gasp!).<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the transatlantic cable and the mammoth ship that carried it, the Great Eastern, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/cable\/index.html\">PBS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image by April Colosimo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Newfoundland last week I stumbled upon this cable station and learned the story of a man who&#8217;s dream it was to run a cable clear across the Atlantic. The Heart&#8217;s Content Cable Station is a provincial historic site, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7-%c2%b7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,51,7,99,50],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cyrus-field","tag-newfoundland","tag-people","tag-places","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}