The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed

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1. Story
2. The cable ships completed the laying of the 1858 cable between Valentia Island in Kerry and Trinity Bay in Newfoundland, having met in mid-ocean and paid out in opposite directions. Test signals passed from 10 August; on 16 August the first official message was sent — the directors' announcement that Europe and America were united by telegraph — and a widely publicised exchange between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan followed. For a few weeks a message could cross the Atlantic in minutes rather than in the ten or eleven days a fast ship took.
3. Knowledge
4. The Valentia Island cable station
5. The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
6. Cyrus West Field
7. The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed
8. Connections
9. The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
10. The Valentia Island cable station
11. Cyrus West Field
12. The Valentia Island cable station
13. Cyrus West Field
14. TAT-1
15. The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed
16. The 1858 cable fails
17. The cable landing station
18. The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
19. The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed
20. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
21. The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
22. The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed
23. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
24. Evidence
25. Supports the 1858 cable dates (completion 5 August, first test signals 10 August, first official message 16 August, failure 18 September), the message counts of the working period, the 1866 landing at Heart's Content and the recovery of the 1865 cable, and Cyrus Field's organising role. V55 verification basis: retrieved by search, not opened. This is a specialist enthusiast-maintained archive rather than an institutional one; it is the standard working reference for this subject and reproduces primary material, but a curator should replace it with institutional citations before publication.