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• Cyrus Field and the Eighth Wonder of the World      August 2007 Learning through History

• Courageous Women of the Civil War                        Under editorial review

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• Keeping the Earth Healthy

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Excerpt from "Cyrus Field", 2007 Learning Through History  

Have you ever called a friend or family member in Europe? Or how about surfing the internet? How did instant communication halfway across the world come to be?

The mid-1800s witnessed tremendous advances in the field of communications—the telegraph, the telephone, and others. Still, in 1850, the only way to get a message across the Atlantic Ocean was to send it on a ship. It could be weeks before the message arrived. This was not just an inconvenience but a matter of life and death. In fact, the bloodiest battle of the War of 1812 was fought two weeks after the war had ended.

The man who saw the future of transcontinental communications was Cyrus Field. He believed he could help a great number of people and could make himself a lot of money. Field was one of the wealthiest business owners in New York City. A complex man, his imagination and persistence would be required to take on a project that people said was impossible.