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From Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, by Simon Winchester

TRANSATLANTIC CABLE

"There were other early fears about the cables, too. One shareholder of the Atlantic Telegraph Company wrote to a friend of his assumption that the voices of those who spoke across the line, 'subject to uncommon compression, may only emerge as mouselike squeaking.'"

From Chapter Two, All the Shoals and Deep Within