The Atlantic Telegraph: A History of Preliminary Experimental Proceedings, and a Descriptive Account of the Present State Prospects of the Undertaking; July, 1857 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The establishment of an Electric Telegraph between the Old and the New Continents, is obviously an enterprise which has no precedent in the annals of mechanical engineering; the object proposed being nothing less than the commercial annihilation of distance in respect to one of the great Gulfs which have been placed between the East and the West -the Opposite halves of the habitable world.

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