View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., Robert Charles Dudley

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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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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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