The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern, Robert Charles Dudley, 1865–66
The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern, 1865–66, Watercolor with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 × 9 in. ( × 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
Size: 5475px × 3699px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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