An old engraving of the outer, iron wire covering of the transatlantic telegraph cables being made at the factory of Webster & Horsfall, Birmingham, England, UK It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. The cables themselves were manufactured by Glass, Elliot and Company in Greenwich, London. The cables were laid under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. This second cable was laid in 1865 from Brunel’s ship SS Great Eastern. The cable broke in mid-Atlantic; after many rescue attempts, it was abandoned.
An old engraving of the outer, iron wire covering of the transatlantic telegraph cables being made at the factory of Webster and Horsfall in Birmingham, England, UK It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. The cables themselves were manufactured by Glass, Elliot and Company at their works at Morden Wharf, Greenwich, London. Transatlantic telegraph cables were the undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. It is now an obsolete form of communication and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other cables. The first cable was laid in the 1850s from Valentia in western Ireland to Bay of Bulls, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Telegraph Company of Cyrus West Field constructed the first transatlantic telegraph cable (1854–58). The cable functioned for only three weeks, but was the first such project to yield practical results. Its short life undermined confidence and delayed efforts to restore a connection. The second cable was laid in 1865 with much-improved material. It was laid from Brunel’s ship SS Great Eastern. The cable broke in mid-Atlantic; after many rescue attempts, it was abandoned. In 1866 a third cable was laid from The Anglo-American Cable house on the Telegraph Field, Foilhomurrum, County Kerry, Ireland. On 13 July, Great Eastern steamed westward to Heart's Content, Newfoundland, and on July 27 the successful connection was put into service. The 1865 cable was also retrieved and spliced so two cables were in service and the transatlantic cables allowed a message and a response in the same day.
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