Telegraph wire at the Greenwich works, c1865. Artist: Unknown

Telegraph wire at the Greenwich works, c1865. Artist: Unknown

1-154-946 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Telegraph wire at the Greenwich works, c1865. The plate is one of 26 illustrations by Robert Dudley in The Atlantic Telegraph, a book by WH Russell, 1866. This shows the reels of gutta percha-covered conducting wire being prepared to be taken for loading on to the Great Eastern, the steamship designed by Brunel. This was for the second attempt to lay a permanent transatlantic communications cable. The third attempt, the following year, was successful and reduced communication times from the length of a sea voyage to a few seconds.


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Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
After
  1. Robert Dudley: (British?): Artist
People Related
  1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: British: Engineer, designer, inventor
  2. Sir William Howard Russell: British; Irish: War correspondent, author, reporter, writer

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World Europe United Kingdom England Greater London London Greenwich Greenwich

  1. 51 29 00 N , 000 00 00 E

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3078x2041
File Size : 18,405kb


Aliases

  1. TLC/C000004
  1. 0460000915
  1. 1-154-946
  1. 1154946
  1. 915
  1. TLC/C000004

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