Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern on August 8th, 1865, Robert Charles Dudley, 1865–66

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Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern on August 8th, 1865, 1865–66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 9 7/16 × 13 3/4 in. ( × 35 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

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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