Atlantic telegraph polka: The Niagara & Agamemnon commencing to lay the cable, 1858. A lithograph by Bufford. Sheet music cover showing the ships Niagara and Agamemnon laying transatlantic cable, and a map of the telegraph between America and Europe. 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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Atlantic Telegraph Polka, Sheet Music, 1858

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