Even though the diameter of this cable could be just 20mm, the size of the machines that turn the steelthreads is just immense, and the entire machines turns around at high speed.
Britain's very first action after declaring war in World War I was to have the cable ship Alert cut the five undersea cables that linked Germany to France, Spain, the Azores, and North America.
This forced the Germans to communicate by wireless, which meant that the cryptoanalysis section of the British Admiralty during WWI, known as Room 40, could listen in.
MijnnaamiFbeeFt on July 21st, 2020 at 08:12 UTC »
Fun fact: the center, with the optic fibres, is filled with vaseline.
9Payload on July 21st, 2020 at 08:23 UTC »
Even though the diameter of this cable could be just 20mm, the size of the machines that turn the steelthreads is just immense, and the entire machines turns around at high speed.
Source: i work as an operator for them
snowyday on July 21st, 2020 at 11:14 UTC »
War time fact: