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					<description><![CDATA[1858: The United States exchanges overseas greetings with the United Kingdom for the first time through the transatlantic telegraph cable. Which was destroyed 4 weeks later by this guy&#8230; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; [Portrait of Wildman Whitehouse, 1856-1865, Maull and Polyblank, Science Museum, 1856-1865. Object No. 1980-2/50. © This [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><div id="attachment_3695" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/800px-Atlantic_cable_Map.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3695" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3695" src="http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/800px-Atlantic_cable_Map.jpg" alt="See page for author [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons" width="800" height="322" srcset="http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/800px-Atlantic_cable_Map.jpg 800w, http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/800px-Atlantic_cable_Map-300x121.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-3695" class="wp-caption-text">See page for author [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons</p></div>Which was destroyed 4 weeks later by this guy&#8230;<br />
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">[Portrait of Wildman Whitehouse, 1856-1865, Maull and Polyblank, Science Museum, 1856-1865. Object No. 1980-2/50. © This image is available for use under the following license: CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0]</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">His complaint was it didn&#8217;t work fast enough, so he turned up the juice too high and fried the thing. Way to go, Wildman.</span></p>
<p>He tried to make it up to everybody with a communications device of his own&#8230;<br />
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