Sentence examples for cable was laid from inspiring English sources

During the campaign a telegraph cable was laid connecting the expeditionary force with the outside world.

A server was hooked up inside the Regency, and cable was laid to connect the lead antenna to the server.

The 24-mile cable was laid last spring, and it now stretches beneath Long Island Sound from New Haven to Shoreham, in Suffolk County.

One occurred in August 1858, when the first trans-Atlantic cable was laid, and a fireworks display was held at City Hall to commemorate the event.

But after a cable was laid under the ocean in 1858 it cut communication times – including transmissions between financial markets – to just a few minutes.

British and American naval ships were instrumental in conducting hydrographic surveys in support of the early attempts to lay a transatlantic cable; the first successful cable was laid in 1866.

The cable is laid in a conduit before the concrete is poured, and after the concrete hardens, the cable is pulled taut.

Travel the downtown area of virtually any major city in the world and you find the streets torn up and tens of thousands of miles of fiber optic cable being laid underneath.

First published in 2009 and translated into English in 2014, The Transformation of the World charts how technological innovations, such as the first telegraph cable being laid across the Channel in 1851, inspired the rise of investigative reporting that in turn changed the dynamics of politics.

FLAG Telecom: New Internet cable being laid in Mediterranean after cut off Egypt coast [The Age].

But the project is largely dependent on an electricity cable being laid between the islands and the Scottish mainland.