The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern, Robert Charles Dudley, 1865

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The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern, 1865, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. ( × 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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Size: 5282px × 3437px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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