In 1914, Wilbur Glenn Voliva offered 5,000$ to anyone who could prove the globe Earth theory or disprove that the Earth was flat.
Keep in mind that 5,000$ back in 1914 would be around 137,000$ in todays money once the inflation has been taken into the account.
#Flatearth
Keep in mind that 5,000$ back in 1914 would be around 137,000$ in todays money once the inflation has been taken into the account.
#Flatearth
The Victorian race to connect the world
The laying of the first transatlantic cable was depicted in an 1877 wood engraving
The internet has been the driving innovation of 21st Century life but the world started to become "connected" more than 160 years ago.
The race to lay an undersea or "submarine" cable began soon after the first telegraph signal was sent in the 1830s. By 1850 Britain and France were linked.
Archaeologist Cassie Newland, who last year curated an exhibition at London's Guildhall Art Gallery on the laying of a transatlantic cable in 1856, has described the efforts as the "talk of the age, the Victorian equivalent of the Apollo mission
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The laying of the first transatlantic cable was depicted in an 1877 wood engraving
The internet has been the driving innovation of 21st Century life but the world started to become "connected" more than 160 years ago.
The race to lay an undersea or "submarine" cable began soon after the first telegraph signal was sent in the 1830s. By 1850 Britain and France were linked.
Archaeologist Cassie Newland, who last year curated an exhibition at London's Guildhall Art Gallery on the laying of a transatlantic cable in 1856, has described the efforts as the "talk of the age, the Victorian equivalent of the Apollo mission
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