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Turns out, the financial infrastructure built at the height of the British empire in the 19th century still actively shape financial markets today. Someone should write a dissertation on this.
I'm doing a piece on undersea cables out this Friday... these things are insane technological feats. My mind is blown that we had cables running from the US to Europe as early as the 1800s.
White hut set back from the beach - a disused station where ones coming from the US once surfaced.pic.twitter.com/zQKSARmhaZ
Please tell me you were the one who trekked all the way out there to take these pictures, Philip
Guys- Why do you think GBP is called cable?
Then you need to look at hybernia atlantic,(now GTT), shortwave technologies like Raft,, and folks were talking about balloon-driven microwave dirigibles spanning the ocean. That last one, I am not sure was ever built but the others are in production.
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