SS Great Eastern. Iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Later converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866.

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SS Great Eastern. Iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Later converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published

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