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The All-Red Route 100 Years On

Posted by Hemos on from the stop-blast-from-the-past-stop dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On October 31, 1902, the first messages were sent along the All-Red Route -- a 5500km telegraph cable linking the whole of the British Empire. First envisioned in 1879, the long-decomissioned cable is still regarded as the longest single run of cable in the world."

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  1. Re:Wow... by davidstrauss · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    5500 KM, a km is around 6/10's of a mile, about 3300 miles, still, just a bit more than 1/7th, no small task!

    Just a bit more than 1/7th of...

    • ...an Uzbekistanian furlong?
    • ...e^pi meters?
    • ...my [...]?

    Didn't your teacher tell you to use units?