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A few of the words
- COPPER
- The cable's conducting core was pure copper, the same reddish metal that carries electricity through household wiring today.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MORSE
- Queen Victoria's historic message to President Buchanan was tapped out in Morse code, the dot-and-dash system Samuel Morse had pioneered in the 1830s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- INSULATE
- Gutta-percha, a natural latex harvested from Malaysian trees, was wrapped around the copper core to insulate it from the seawater, a crucial innovation for any undersea cable.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ATLANTIC
- The cable crossed roughly 2,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor, lying at depths that no human hand had ever reached.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The First Undersea Telegraph Cable Is Completed: a free large-print word search
Transatlantic telegraph cable word search, free and large-print. On August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria wired President Buchanan across the deep Atlantic.
About The First Undersea Telegraph Cable Is Completed
On August 16, 1858, a message crackled across roughly 2,000 miles of copper wire resting on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, the first electrical words ever exchanged between continents. Queen Victoria had composed a congratulatory dispatch to U.S. President James Buchanan, and the signal, carried dot by dot and dash by dash, made the impossible feel suddenly ordinary. The cable itself was a marvel: copper conductors wrapped in gutta-percha insulation, coiled into the holds of two great ships that had met mid-ocean, spliced their respective ends together, and sailed apart toward their distant shores.
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- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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