Talk:Transatlantic crossing

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The current (July 2006) text reads:

"From the 17th century onward, almost all transatlantic crossings bound for North America were destined for New York City."

No support is given for this proposition. While it may be true that eventually the majority of traffic went to NYC, there were other very active ports, such as Quebec, Halifax, and Boston (terminus for many immigrant crossings and early steamship voyages). Perhaps the plurality or majority of crossings went to the Port of New York, but without support for the claim that it was the destination point for "almost all" transatlantic crossings from the Seventeenth Century onwards, this text should be removed. Kablammo 13:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted the entire paragraph. While New York may have become the busiest port on the western shore, there were many others "from the 17th century onward". This article is about "transatlantic" and not about New York, and to devote a paragraph to one important port would invite similar treatment for Genoa, Le Havre, the St. Lawrence ports, Halifax, Glasgow, Southhampton, Liverpool, Hamburg, etc. Kablammo 01:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Had Moved the Page. --Trulystand700 (talk) 00:08, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At present, the only light shed on this subject is mention of a new record crossing time of about 3 1/2 days in 1952, near the end of the passenger liner era. What was the typical time, and, more importantly, what were typical crossing times in, say, 1925, 1900, 1850, and 1750? It matters, because at a date still within living memory there was no other way to make the trip than by sea, and the time it took to move people, goods, and (before there was a transatlantic telegraph cable) news across the Atlantic had major social, commercial and political impacts on both sides. 66.81.222.203 (talk) 23:56, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Can't use Wikipedia for this info. That would risk someone doing a _shudder_ table. No, better avoid that. WP gets worse, and worse, and worse. --jae (talk) 14:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A SR-71 jet did it in 1971- 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds! https://tacairnet.com/2015/09/02/the-sr-71s-record-breaking-transatlantic-crossing/ 79.77.208.60 (talk) 20:44, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the transatlantic radio section as off-topic, according to the scope of the article laid out in the first para. I've been wrong before, though, so here's the removed text in case somebody wants it. --Lockley (talk) 21:18, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Transatlantic radio communication was first accomplished on 12 December 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi who, using a temporary receiving station at Signal Hill, Newfoundland, received a Morse code signal representing the letter "S" sent from Poldhu, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.^[1] Guglielmo Marconi initiated commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power long wave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on 17 October 1907.

Amateur radio operators are usually credited with the discovery of transatlantic radio communication in the shortwave bands. The first successful transatlantic tests were conducted by radio amateurs in December 1921 operating in the 200 meter medium-wave band, the shortest wavelength then available to amateurs. In 1922 hundreds of North American amateurs were heard in Europe at 200 meters and at least 20 North American amateurs heard amateur signals from Europe. The first two way transatlantic shortwave radio contacts were completed by radio amateurs in November 1923, on 110 meters.

Marconi initiated the first commercial shortwave transatlantic radio communication between the UK to Canada using his Beam Wireless Service which went into commercial operation on 25 October 1926. Shortwave radio vastly increased the speed and capacity of transatlantic communications at dramatically reduced cost compared to telegraph cable and long wave radio.

Telstar was the first communications satellite to provide commercial transatlantic communications. It was launched by on 10 July 1962, the first privately sponsored space launch. Communications satellites vastly increased the speed and quality of transatlantic communication, but transatlantic fiber optic cables have carried the vast majority of transatlantic communications traffic since the early 1990s.