1865 Two Engravings - Transatlantic Telegraph - Coiling Cable on Great Eastern

Description: Two interesting antique engravings published in The Illustrated London News magazine entitled : "Coiling the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in one of the tanks on board the Great Eastern" - dated February 11, 1865 "Machinery for taking the Electric Telegraph Cable on board the Great Eastern" - cover page dated February 18, 1865 See interesting associated text to the reverse explaining that 2253 miles of cable was coiled into three individual tanks Good condition - see scans. Page size 11 x 16 inches These are original antique prints and not reproductions . Great collectors items for the historian Note: International mailing will require that the pages be lightly folded and mailed in a reinforced envelope Transatlantic telegraph cable23 languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMap of the 1858 transatlantic cable routeTransatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is now an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunications cables. The first cable was laid in the 1850s from Valentia Island off the west coast of Ireland to Bay of Bulls, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The first communications occurred on 16 August 1858, but the line speed was poor, and efforts to improve it caused the cable to fail after three weeks.The Atlantic Telegraph Company led by Cyrus West Field constructed the first transatlantic telegraph cable.[1] The project began in 1854 and was completed in 1858. The cable functioned for only three weeks, but was the first such project to yield practical results. The first official telegram to pass between two continents was a letter of congratulations from Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom to President of the United States James Buchanan on 16 August. Signal quality declined rapidly, slowing transmission to an almost unusable speed. The cable was destroyed the following month when Wildman Whitehouse applied excessive voltage to it while trying to achieve faster operation. It has been argued that the cable's faulty manufacture, storage and handling would have caused its premature failure in any case.[2] Its short life undermined public and investor confidence and delayed efforts to restore a connection.Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866 at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866The second cable was laid in 1865 with much improved material. It was laid from the ship SS Great Eastern, built by John Scott Russell and Isambard Kingdom Brunel and skippered by Sir James Anderson. More than halfway across, the cable broke, and after many rescue attempts, it was abandoned.[3] In July 1866 a third cable was laid from The Anglo-American Cable house on the Telegraph Field, Foilhomurrum. On 13 July, Great Eastern steamed westward to Heart's Content, Newfoundland, and on 27 July the successful connection was put into service. The 1865 cable was also retrieved and spliced, so two cables were in service.[4] These cables proved more durable. Line speed was very good, and the slogan "Two weeks to two minutes" was coined to emphasize the great improvement over ship-borne dispatches. The cable altered for all time personal, commercial and political relations between people across the Atlantic. Since 1866 there has been a permanent cable connection between the continents. In the 1870s duplex and quadruplex transmission and receiving systems were set up that could relay multiple messages over the cable.[5] Before the first transatlantic cable, communications between Europe and the Americas took place only by ship and could be delayed for weeks by severe winter storms. By contrast, the transatlantic cable allowed a message and a response in the same day. y

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