The Engineering That Built the World

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Cable Across the Sea

Episode Synopsis

A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

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