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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Self-made millionaire Cyrus Field championed the idea of a telegraph from England to Newfoundland. Britain quickly agreed to subsidize. Congress went along by a one-vote margin. That was in 1856. Laying cable was tough. It kept breaking. The first line - two years later - died almost immediately. But 10 years later, there were two working lines. Communications changed forever.
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