View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable

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View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., 1865–66, Watercolor with touches of gouache, Sheet: 8 15/16 x 6 1/4 in. ( x 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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Size: 3560px × 5133px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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