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View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., Robert Charles Dudley
View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., 1865–66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/2 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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