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Limits RegistryOn 16 August 1858, Queen Victoria sent a 98-word message of congratulation to U.S. President James Buchanan over the first transatlantic telegraph cable, laid between Valentia Island, Ireland, and Newfoundland by the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The message took about 16 hours to transmit, and the cable failed within weeks; a durable link followed in 1866.
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On 16 August 1858, Queen Victoria sent a 98-word message of congratulation to U.S. President James Buchanan over the first transatlantic telegraph cable, laid between Valentia Island, Ireland, and Newfoundland by the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The message took about 16 hours to transmit, and the cable failed within weeks; a durable link followed in 1866.
The year in which the first telegraph message was transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean by submarine cable.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-TRANSATLANTIC-TELEGRAPH-MESSAGE. First transatlantic telegraph message. 2026.