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: Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident)


Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident)

Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865, 1865-66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 7/8 x 10 7/16 in. (17.5 x 26.5 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer

Picture No
11983220
Media ID
46896521
Size
5279px x 3442px (16.3MB)
Credit
© The Liszt Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Artokoloro Liszt Collection

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