Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), US financier. Field was one of the founders of the Atlantic Telegraph Company that laid the first telegraph cable across

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Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), US financier. Field was one of the founders of the Atlantic Telegraph Company that laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Artwork from the tenth volume (second period of 1892) of the French popular science weekly 'La Science Illustree'.

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