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Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866, Robert Charles Dudley, 1865–66
Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866, 1865–66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 13 7/16 × 20 7/16 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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