Arrival in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: The Cable Passed to the Paddle-box Boat of the Terrible, etc., Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

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Arrival in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: The Cable Passed to the Paddle-box Boat of the Terrible, etc., 1866, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 10 5/8 × 15 3/8 in. (27 × 39 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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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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