150 YEARS AT PORTHCURNO

摘要

One hundred and fifty years ago, the first international telegraph cable was brought ashore at Porthcurno. It was the first cable to connect Britain to India and later other parts of the British Empire. Prior to this, messages to India could take six weeks or more but telegraphic messages took nine minutes. Porthcurno Telegraph Station, or PK to many, became the most important station in the world in the late Victorian era.