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A quality reprint of a Victorian edition

After several attempts, on 27th July 1866 the transatlantic telegraph cable was hauled ashore in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland. After several attempts Europe and America were joined. This is an account of one of Victorian Britain’s engineering feats, linking the New World with the Old and heralding the days of mass-communication.

Review: Innovative, determined, almost heroic in their efforts to facilitate and improve communications between two great economic powerhouses, the Victorian engineers – Brunel and Gooch – could teach us many things.

Having been written so much closer in time to the actual events by Sir William Russel, one can imagine being there and witnessing the whole event as if it were happening today.