Telecommunications History Group

From Lodestone, by Annie Wenstrup

“Better to remember how I loved

the corded phone as a teen,
loved its tight coils, more elastic
than they looked. I’d thread my finger through them,
like stacked rings and bind myself to another’s voice,
the limits of my romance. I didn’t know a compass

could encircle desire until my love replaced the cords
with a single shining loop. This machine demands removal. Bereft, I remember how I lost myself following raspberries through the woods behind our home. I could not find my way.

I called and his voice found mine before we saw each other.
I called and his voice found me.”

Milestones:Landing of the Transatlantic Cable, 1866 A permanent electrical communications link between the old world and the new was initiated at this site with the landing of a transatlantic cable on July 27, 1866. This achievement altered for all time personal, commercial, and political relations between peoples on the two sides of the ocean. Five....