TAT-1 Telephone Cable: Bridging the Atlantic

Like what I make? Want fewer sponsorship ad reads? Consider contributing to my Patreon at TAT-1 was the world’s first transatlantic telephone cable, laid between 1955 and 1956 and inaugurated on September 25, 1956. Operating until 1978, TAT-1 carried over 300,000 calls per year - including traffic from the Washington-Moscow Hotline - and laid the technological groundwork for dozens of cables - both public and private - laid over the following decades.