Testing the 1865 Atlantic telegraph cable on board the Great Eastern 17 August 1866. The apparatus being used on the right is William Thomson's (Lord-Kelvin) mirror galvanometer.

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Testing the 1865 Atlantic telegraph cable on board the Great Eastern 17 August 1866. The apparatus being used on the right is William Thomson's (Lord-Kelvin) mirror galvanometer.

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