
Ajit Pai @AjitPai
OTD in 1851, the Submarine Telegraph Company opened for business. It ran the world’s 1st operational underwater telegraph cable, between Dover & Calais. (This was the 2nd cable; "a French fisherman cut the [1st], thinking it was a new kind of seaweed"). https://t.co/laKefJPzCF https://t.co/vewRDMAcsq — PolitiTweet.org