If you haven't read it, I strongly recommend it. It covers how under ocean cable is laid, how the construction industry works, how the telephone industry works, and the history of the telephone/telegraph.
Cool article about undersea cables (instead of working on a fishing rig in Alaska it would be fun to work a specialized fiber-laying vessel like the Wave Venture mentioned in the article.)
But honestly I was expecting something more along the lines of a measurable uptick in births 9 months later. :)
If you haven't read it, I strongly recommend it. It covers how under ocean cable is laid, how the construction industry works, how the telephone industry works, and the history of the telephone/telegraph.