Picture No | 10216597 |
Date | 1853 |
Description | Orfordness Lighthouse and Telegraph Station 1853 |
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Orfordness lighthouse and Submarine electric telegraph station, Suffolk, June 1853. At the end of May 1853 a telegraph cable 119 miles had been laid between Orfordness and Scheveningen, Holland, by the Electric Telegraph Company.
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Source | The Illustrated London News, 18 June 1853, page 496 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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