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Figure 5

Colour photograph of a transatlantic telephone cable submarine repeater and a large screen above showing an early transatlantic communication

© Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Paul Robeson and Alfie Bass communicated via the first transatlantic telephone cable, the TAT-1, in 1957. The installation is played above an original submarine repeater used to amplify the signal travelling through the cable. 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150303/011