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 Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Walker & Company
ISBN: 0802713645
Release Date: Jan 4, 1992
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
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"Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, they were a fact of life. The United States was remote from Europe, the center of world affairs, and communication was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic. Instant contact seemed as unlikely then as walking on the moon did in the 1950s." The Civil War had barely ended, however, when the Old and New Worlds had been united by the successful laying of a telegraph cable that spanned the Atlantic in 1866. A Thread Across the Ocean chronicles this extraordinary achievement, one of the greatest engineering feats of that century - and perhaps of all time.
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The Too-Brief History of the Atlantic Cable
-- C. Hearn, an occasional book reviewer, September 10, 2002
Also Recommended: Samuel Carter III, Cyrus Field, 1968 Bern Dibner, The Atlantic Cable, 1959. Charles Bright, The Story of the Atlantic Cable, 1903 William Howard Russell, The Atlantic Telegraph, 1866
| |  | | | | A Note on Money | xi | | Acknowledgments | xiii | | I | "An Enterprise Worthy of This Day of Great Things" | 1 | | II | Cyrus Field | 14 | | III | Newfoundland | 28 | | IV | "How Many Months? Let's Say How Many Years!" | 47 | | V | Raising More Capital | 61 | | VI | The First Cable | 75 | | VII | "And Lay the Atlantic Cable in a Heap" | 100 | | VIII | Lightning Through Deep Waters | 121 | | IX | "Here's the Ship to Lay Your Cable, Mr. Field" | 142 | | X | A New Cable, a New Attempt | 163 | | XI | "The Great Eastern Looms All Glorious in the Morning Sky" | 187 | | Epilogue--"There Were Two Worlds ... Let There Be One" | 209 | | Notes | 217 | | Bibliography | 225 | | Index | 229 |
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Cables, Submarine, Atlantic Ocean, History, Telegraph, United States, Technology & Industrial Arts, Technology, Telecommunications, Modern - 19th Century, United States - 19th Century
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