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Today—28 December—in Hawaiian History [1902]: The Hawaiian Islands and California were linked by a 2,000+ mile undersea telegraph cable laid by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. The cable stretched from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to the port of Honolulu. The cable would later be extended to reach from Honolulu to Guam and on to Manila. To read more on communication cables that connected the Hawaiian Islands to the rest of the world see Pacific Cable, Hawaii, and Global Communication by Jeffrey K. Lyons in the Hawaiian Journal of History v39 (2005) here: evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/466 and Attempt to Lay a Cable between the Hawaiian Islands by Anne Hamilton Stites in the Hawaiian Journal of History v2 (1968) here: evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/175
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:15:59 +0000

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