St Piran’s Day at Technetix to Celebrate Cornwall
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The UK office stopped for a pasty lunch to mark St Piran’s Day, the national day of Cornwall, on March 5.
In addition to some proper Cornish pasties, the UK team enjoyed scones, jam, and clotted cream. But tales of sun, sea and surf took a backseat during lunchtime conversation. It seems the jury is out at Technetix as to the right way to dress a scone. What goes first? Jam, or clotted cream?
The controversy around cream tea etiquette endures.
Proper Cornish pasties were delivered to Technetix from the heart of Cornwall. One colleague took a diplomatic approach to the conundrum that continues to divide people from Cornwall and Devon – whether scones should be spread with jam or clotted cream first.
Global telecommunications began in Cornwall
Of course, Cornwall played a major role in birthing global telecommunications. The world’s first subsea telegraph cable landed at Porthcurno in 1870, from its origin thousands of miles away in India. The cable supported DC pulse signals, capable of traveling the thousands of miles, to send Morse code messages. This transatlantic breakthrough was a feat of communications engineering at the time. A true sea change, it was a revolution in global connectivity.
PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications
Owned by Cable and Wireless, the beach and clifftop telegraph building were closed to the public for over a century. But since it was acquired by the National Trust in the 1990s, Porthcurno enjoys thousands of visitors every year. The building, known as ‘PK’ – a nod to its Morse abbreviation – is now the Museum of Global Communications.
Cornwall remains one of the world’s most important cable landing destinations. The station at Bude lands the largest number of subsea cable systems in the UK, including the 2Africa. At an immense 45,000km long, this fiber optics system is the longest submarine cable in the world.
Its vast coast and position within the Atlantic Ocean puts Cornwall’s peninsula formation in North America’s eyeline. It also provides other regions an unobstructed, strategic transatlantic pathway for undersea infrastructure. So with telecommunications’ origin story starting in this beautiful county, we raise our Scrumpy and say a very loud, resounding…
Kernow bys vyken!
Author – Plum Phillips
Technetix’ copywriter and proud Cornish person, Plum’s colleagues don’t stand a chance of letting St Piran’s Day come and go unnoticed.
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