Atlantic Telegraph Company

The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link.

Atlantic Telegraph Company
IndustryTelegraphy
Founded1856
FoundersCyrus Field, John Watkins Brett, Charles Tilston Bright
Fate1870 merged with New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company and French Atlantic Cable Company
SubsidiariesTelegraph Construction and Maintenance Company
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