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© 1. Archivio Storico TIM — Società Italiana per l'Esercizio Telefonico (SIP) telephone exchange, the primary telecommunications company in Italy before being renamed Telecom Italia in 1994 (1992) / 2. AvantPost/Production Type / 3. IBM / 4. Everett Collection — Telephone operators working at an international switchboard in the 1930s /5. unknown / 6. AT&T Archives & History Center — The original 1ESS in Succasunna, NJ / 7. Lando Civilini — Technicians at the telephone exchange in the 1960s / 8. CERN / 9. San Diego Air & Space Museum — Engineer Karen Leadlay in an analogue computer lab at General Dynamics (1964) / 10. unknown — A view of inside Los Alamos National Laboratory as researchers work on a nuclear testing project (1974) / 11. CERN — CMS Experiment / 12. ESA/NASA/T. Pesquet — ESA/CNES Grasp experiment to understand how humans adapt their hand-eye coordination in space.
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable, laid in 1858, was insulated with gutta-percha, a natural latex derived from the sap of trees native to Southeast Asia. This innovative insulation material provided protection for the copper wires transmitting telegraph signals across the Atlantic Ocean. The use of gutta-percha was a significant technological advancement in the 19th century, as it made long-distance telecommunication feasible by preventing signal loss and interference. Nowadays, the longest continuous electrical wire in the world stretches across the ocean floor. It is called the “SEA-ME-WE 3” (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 3) submarine communications cable, and it spans approximately 39,000 kilometres (24,000 miles) from Western Europe to East Asia, connecting 33 countries and regions along its route.
Interestingly, wires in the ISS are colour-coded to help astronauts identify and troubleshoot electrical systems more easily in the microgravity environment of space. In addition to standard colour-coding conventions used on Earth, such as red for power and black for ground, the wires in the ISS may have unique patterns or markings to distinguish them from one another.
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