Atlantic Telegraph. Correspondence. The Queen's Letter ... President's Reply

by Trans-Atlantic Telegraph

$6,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Small broadside, 10-1/8x4-1/2 inches. Minor toning. Item #371467 Cyrus Field, a wealthy American businessman, organized the construction and laying of the first working transatlantic submarine telegraph cables in 1858 ... Field became obsessed with the idea of a transatlantic telegraph after an encounter in 1854 with F. N. Gisborne, the head of an unsuccessful attempt to lay an underwater cable between New York and Newfoundland. To capitalize

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