Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable mb-code IOM_MNH_2002_0010_2 A Girl with a Watering

A Girl with a Watering Can

summons the mist away'

showing the London and Birmingham Railway from the end of the Primrose Hill Tunnel

makes off with a sack labelled Surplus £5

running on pneumatic tyres

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable mb-code IOM_MNH_2002_0010_2 A Girl with a WateringManufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich. The cable, connecting Valentia island, off the Irish coast, and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, was successfully laid in the summer of 1866 by Brunel's steamship, the 'Great Eastern'. From The Atlantic Telegraph by William Howard Russell, published 1866.