Craig M'Nure: Part 5

By SHOO RAYNER

This cable was laid across the Atlantic Ocean in 1952. We've had free phone calls ever since. I sometimes worry that they might bring me a phone bill one day!

It turned out that they wanted to lay a new cable across the ocean, a modern fibre-optic one. The information superhighway was coming right past my front door! The internet was coming to Bronch's Chair.

The fibre-optic signal couldn't get across the ocean in one go, so they wanted to build a booster station on the island. It would take them a few months to do all the work, so they asked if they could build a hut that they could live in for a while.

Publisher: Barrington Stoke

Price: $17.95

Age group: 8-13 years


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