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原文
The first attempt at a cross channel cable came in 1850. With thin wire and thick installation it floated and had to be weighted down with lead pipe.
It never worked well as the effect of water on its electrical properties was not understood, and it is reputed that a French fisherman hooked out a section and took it home as a strange new form of ‘seaweed.’
Flocks of sheep had to be driven with the 400 workers to provide food. They needed horses and bullock carts and, for the parched interior, camels.
第 1 题
What was used by British pioneers to increase the weight of the cable in the sea?
第 2 题
What did the fisherman mistakenly take the cable as?
第 3 题
What giant animals were used to carry the cable through desert?
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