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Lecture Ready 3 Unit 2: Media Studies Name: _________________________
SCRIPT:
Today’s
lecture
is
about
submarine
cables.
Wednesday,
I’ll
talk
about
modern
fiber
optic
cables,
but
today,
I
want
to
provide
some
history.
In
1852,
one
of
the
first
submarine
cables
connected
Britain
and
France
across
the
English
Channel.
The
next
year,
Britain
and
thherlands
were
connected.
In
1858
came
a
major
triumph—a
cable
connecting
North
America
and
Europe.
The
Transatlantic
Cable
stretched
from
Newfoundland
to
Ireland.
American
businessman
Cyrus
Field
was
the
man
behind
this
cable.
When
it
was
complete,
there
were
huge
celebrations
in
New
York.
One
of
the
first
messages
sent
across
the
Atlantic
was
from
Britain’s
Queen
Victoria,
congratulating
the
newly‐elected
,
James
Buchanan.
By
the
early
1900’s,
cables
crossed
the
Pacific
and
most
of
the
world
was
connected.
It’s
hard
to
imagine
how
much
the
submarine
cablwork
changed
the
world.
It
was
“the
th
Victorian
Inte.”
What
I
mean
is,
it
changed
communication
in
the
19
century
as
much
as
the
Inte
changed
it
in
the
twentieth.
ally,
I
think
it
was
even
more
important
than
the
Inte.
Before
cables,
news
was
carried
by
ships,
which
took
about
5
days
to
cross
the
Atlantic.
A
message
sent
by
submarine
cable—though
not
as
fast
as
today’s
cables—could
cross
oceans
in
a
matter
of
minutes.
In
his
book
about
the
Krakatoa
eruption
in
Indonesia
in
1883,
Simon
Winchester
said
that
the
reports
about
that
terrible
disaster
were
the
first
really
global
news.
PART
1:
A.
Watch
the
student
presentation
and
answer
questions
1–6.
Questions
1–4
Choose
the
best
phrase
to
complete
the
sentence.
(1
point
each)
1.
The
main
point
of
this
lecture
is
to
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