2-889-356 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - The Goliah Steamer "Paying Out" the Electric Wire, 1850. Ships laying a telegraph cable between England and France: '...by steady and cautious manipulation, the Goliah delivered her cargo of wire to be safely connected with the end of the tubing which had been laid at Cape Grinez, and run up the cliff to a temporary station at its summit. This was completed the same evening...at nine o'clock...a message was printed, in legible Roman letters, upon a long strip of paper, by Mr. Jacob Brett's printing telegraph, in the station on the French coast, in the sight of a numerous audience of the French officials and others, amidst tremendous cheers of all present at the success; and three times three resounded on all sides for the Queen of Great Britain, and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and the French nation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.