Telegraph line London-Delhi Bashny.Net

I live in the Crimea, to be exact - in the hero-city of Kerch.
Last Sunday, went with friends in the mountains of Crimea, the waterfalls, but along the way, but rather in the village meadows, had to make an emergency stop, and that's what we found ...
As it turned out, through our Peninsula, and specifically through our city, in the nineteenth century it was built a telegraph line stretching 11 thousand. Km. between London and Delhi, but this is not the most important, and most importantly that the telegraph poles are preserved since then and not only still in use!
Poking around the Internet, I naryl interesting on the Old and decided to post it!





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This is the second post in the village, they say, there is also with us in Kerch somewhere alone!



www.atlantic-cable.com/
This is the link of the official website and documents from there



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After the Crimean War, one of the achievements of the British was to summon them the right to build a telegraph line from London to Calcutta (11 thousand km) through the territory of Russia and, in particular, through the Crimea. STORY firm Siemens. The line was launched in 1868 and worked until 1931 pass through Perekop, Simferopol, Belogorsk, north of Agramysh and Kerch.

The "London - Kolkata" was the world's first telegraph line. In just a few decades before him "Telegraph Company" Siemens and Halske "as they called the general contractor building the transcontinental telegraph, only a small Prussia built more than a thousand kilometers of telegraph lines. To cope with this is unfamiliar and troublesome economy in the Prussian government even formed a special agency. It seems that it was the world's first Ministry of Communications.

In 1851, the British businessmen brothers Gretta at the bottom of the English Channel have laid an underwater cable that connected the capital of two states always competing - Great Britain and France. And seven years later, telegraph lines boldly laid on the bottom of the Red Sea and the North Atlantic. Sepoy Mutiny in India reached London only a few weeks later than the proven importance of rapid communications and accelerate the adoption by the UK government project to build a telegraph line in its richest colony.

Although its implementation specialists no longer had anything fundamentally revolutionary, will not detract from the scale of the project. After the Suez Canal and the Meso-American Railroad New York - San Francisco, the construction of the telegraph length of 11 thousand kilometers was the technological breakthrough of the century.

The construction of the transcontinental telegraph, soon became a revolution in the field of management. Cable line passed through London - Berlin - Kiev - Odessa - Kerch - Batumi - Tbilisi - Tehran - Karachi - Calcutta, and its construction in the territories of different countries were three branches of the company. The timing of this project exascale - two years - is still surprising organizers of production.

April 12, 1870 from London to Calcutta by telegram was handed the text of the national anthem of Albion "God Save the Queen" and a report card of future wages paid telegraph. The test session took 28 minutes and caused a storm of delight its unprecedented speed. It drowned out the quiet voice of the Yasnaya Polyana recluse. April 13 at the office of Tolstoy literally broke with a bundle of newspapers, his secretary Chertkov. "Leo, yesterday opened a telegraph from London to Calcutta. Now, just a few minutes a person can pass any of your thoughts on the other end of the world!

It is necessary to announce that the Caucasian shore telegraph line destroyed the Civil War and the policy of "steal the loot." A firm "Siemens" thriving in the business world so far. She built the world's first trolleybus line, refrigerator, washing machine with centrifuge paved Europe's first subway was a pioneer in the development of mobile communications!

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