The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm A group of suffragettes holding

A group of suffragettes holding placards publicising a public meeting to be held on Ealing Common on 1 June

Royal College of Surgeons

Old couple dozing in the sun at Serpentine Lido

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'A Studio Idyll: the Artist's Wife and their Daughter Suzanne'

The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm A group of suffragettes holdingThe 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable, 1866, (c1920). An attempt in 1865 by Brunel's giant steamship, the 'Great Eastern' to lay the cable ended in failure when the cable snapped and the end was lost. The following year the 'Great Eastern' succeeded in retrieving the lost cable and completing it, connecting Valentia in Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Instead of the length of a sea voyage, communication time between the two sides