Editing English Channel (section)

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! Date
!Crossing
!Participant(s)
!Notes
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| 17 October 1851
| First submarine cable for telegraph across the Channel in September laid from [[St Margaret's at Cliffe|St. Margaret's Bay]], England to [[Sangatte]], France (commonly referred to as the Dover to Calais cable)
| [[Thomas Russell Crampton]] (engineer), financed by [[Charlton James Wollaston]] in a private partnership with others, entitled "Wollaston et Compagnie".
| The first international [[submarine cable]] in the world, in use until 1859. 21 nautical miles distance needed 24 + 1 n. miles of cable spliced.<ref>[http://distantwriting.co.uk/competitorsallies.aspx The European & American Electric Type-Printing Telegraph Company] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206224601/http://distantwriting.co.uk/competitorsallies.aspx |date=6 December 2012 }} distantwriting.co.uk, retrieved 14 August 2019.</ref>
|-
| 27 March 1899
| First radio transmission across the Channel (from [[Wimereux]] to [[South Foreland Lighthouse]])
| [[Guglielmo Marconi]] (Italy)
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|}

[[PLUTO]] was war-time fuel delivery project of "pipelines under the ocean" from England to France. Though plagued with technical difficulties during the Battle of Normandy, the pipelines delivered about 8% of the fuel requirements of the Allied forces between D-Day and VE-Day.