I remember reading about the first cable that was laid across the Atlantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable https://en.wikipedia.or

I remember reading about the first cable that was laid across the Atlantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable They didn't know much about transmission line theory, and even burned out the cable at one point. Heaviside was only about 8 years old when the first cable was laid down.