A thread across the ocean : the heroic story of the transatlantic cable

A thread across the ocean : the heroic story of the transatlantic cable / John Steele Gordon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gordon, John Steele
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Walker & Co., 2002.
Subjects:	Cables, Submarine > Atlantic Ocean > History. Telegraph > United States > History. Telegraph > Great Britain > History.

Table of Contents:

An enterprise worthy of this day of great things
Cyrus Field
Newfoundland
"How many months? : let's say how many years"
Raising more capital
The first cable
"And lay the Atlantic cable in a heap"
Lightning through deep waters
"Here's the ship to lay your cable, Mr. Field"
A new cable, a new attempt
"The great Eastern looms all glorious in the morning sky".