The Underwater Web Cabling the Seas How the Old Became New and Other Seeming Contradictions ... Through these doors, the world ... Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, was a typical telegraph relay station, small and isolated. Yet the cables that left this cabinet stretched across the sea to stations thousands of miles away, and through them to the major cities of the world.
Cable entry box, about 1910 National Museum of American History, from Western Union International