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TAT-1: The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable

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REPEATER
TAT-1 carried 51 vacuum-tube repeater amplifiers embedded along its length, each one boosting the signal before it could fade in the depths.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SCOTLAND
The European end of TAT-1 came ashore at Gallanach Bay, near Oban on the west coast of Scotland, chosen for its sheltered approach from the open Atlantic.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
COAXIAL
TAT-1 used a coaxial design, a central copper conductor wrapped in insulating polyethylene and then shielded by steel armor, purpose-built to survive deep-sea pressure.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TAT
TAT stands for Trans-Atlantic Telephone; TAT-1 could carry 36 simultaneous voice calls, a staggering leap over the handful of radio-telephone circuits it replaced.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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TAT-1 transatlantic telephone cable word search. September 25, 1956: a voice crossed the Atlantic on copper wire for the first time. NEWFOUNDLAND is in there.

About TAT-1: The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable

On September 25, 1956, TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable, opened for commercial service, linking Gallanach Bay in Scotland to Clarenville, Newfoundland across nearly 4,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean floor. Before that day, a transatlantic phone call meant routing through fragile radio waves that crackled with static and faded with the weather; suddenly, a voice could travel clear and steady through the cold dark deep. The cable was a marvel of coaxial design, wound with copper conductors and studded with repeater amplifiers every forty miles or so to keep the signal alive for its entire underwater journey.

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