The Atlantic Telegraph Cable breaking aboard the Great Eastern, July 31, 1865, artist's impression

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The Atlantic Telegraph Cable breaking aboard the Great Eastern, July 31, 1865, artist's impression

Scanned by

Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

07/31/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 29, 2015.

Depicted ContentTelegraph

Depicted ContentThe Great Eastern begins to lay cable connected to the recovered 1865 broken cable and heads for Newfoundland.

Depicted ContentThe Great Eastern, laying the new Atlantic Cable, passes where the cable broke and was lost in 1865.

Depicted ContentIn the Atlantic, the latest effort to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable fails when the cable breaks and is lost

Image type

engraving

Original caption

The Breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board the Great Eastern.

Source citation

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 23, 1865, p. 5.

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