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Henry M. Field. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE BARRIER OF THE SEA
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CHAPTER II. CAN THE OCEAN BE SPANNED?
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CHAPTER III. THE COMPANY ORGANIZED
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CHAPTER IV. CROSSING NEWFOUNDLAND
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CHAPTER V. THE DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS
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CHAPTER VI. THE WORK BEGUN IN ENGLAND
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CHAPTER VII. SEEKING AID FROM CONGRESS
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CHAPTER VIII. THE EXPEDITION OF 1857
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CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST EXPEDITION OF 1858
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CHAPTER X. THE SECOND EXPEDITION SUCCESSFUL
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CHAPTER XI. EXCITEMENT IN AMERICA
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CHAPTER XII. DID THE FIRST CABLE EVER WORK?
CHAPTER XIII. CAST DOWN, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR
CHAPTER XIV. THE EXPEDITION OF 1865
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CHAPTER XV. PREPARING TO RENEW THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XVI. VICTORY AT LAST
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CHAPTER XVII. RECOVERY OF THE LOST CABLE
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE AFTERGLOW
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APPENDIX. INSTRUMENTS FOR SIGNALLING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
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Henry M. Field
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Washington, February 22, 1854.
"Sir: The United States brig Dolphin, Lieutenant Commanding O. H. Berryman, was employed last summer upon especial service connected with the researches that are carried on at this office concerning the winds and currents of the sea. Her observations were confined principally to that part of the ocean which the merchantmen, as they pass to and fro upon the business of trade between Europe and the United States, use as their great thoroughfare. Lieutenant Berryman availed himself of this opportunity to carry along also a line of deep-sea soundings, from the shores of Newfoundland to those of Ireland. The result is highly interesting, in so far as the bottom of the sea is concerned, upon the question of a submarine telegraph across the Atlantic; and I therefore beg leave to make it the subject of a special report.
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