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When the first transatlantic cable was successfully laid in the summer of 1858, two continents buzzed with the promise of instant communication. The Times of London went so far as to declare: "The ...

Telegraph Construction and Maintenace Co , of London, which manufactured and laid the cable; notably the original transatlantic cables, using the good ship Great eastern. Bruce Henderson Complain ...

“Where it is all going to end, and what kind of life the ‘merchant of the future’ will lead, nobody knows.” Great Eastern was the main ship that laid the cable from North America to Europe ...

ON MAY 24, 1844, the artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first official telegraph message transmitted in the United States, “What hath God wrought?” ...

Though the need for a transatlantic cable was obvious, the physical challenges to laying one were enormous. The project would require the production of a 2,000 mile long cable that would have to ...

American Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company; Plans of. A NEW CABLE.; ANOTHER TRANSATLANTIC LINK. THE WIRE TO BE COMPLETED NEXT MAY-- SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS PAID IN--A HISTORY OF THE ENTERPRISE.

Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters. Hayley Brazier In summer 2022, I was performing research in the archives of the National Museum of American History when I ...

A fried transatlantic telegraph cable sparked the birth of the electrical engineering profession, a bizarre beginning described by a keynoter at DesignCon. The work of paper baron Cyrus West Field on ...

Award-winning author, Mary Morton Cowan, will present a slideshow based on her biography on Field, "Cyrus Field’s Big Dream: The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable." ...

I t was a symbol of progress, the first transatlantic telegraph cable paid out from the deck of a ship between Telegraph Field in Ireland and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland. It took four years to ...