Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Finish:20-pack 30th April 1997

30th April 1997

Depiction of a mural painting in the Royal Exchange

Detail from a map showing the Copernican system of planetary orbits (the 'Planisphaerium Copernicanum')

by Charles Blagden

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Finish:20-pack 30th April 1997Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich. The cable, connecting Valentia island, off the Irish coast, and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, was successfully laid in the summer of 1866 by Brunel's steamship, the 'Great Eastern'. From The Atlantic Telegraph by William Howard Russell, published 1866.