The laying of the cable, or the ocean telegraph; being a complete and authentic narrative of the attempt to lay the cable across the entrance to the gulf of St. Lawrence in 1855, and of the three Atlantic telegraph expeditions of 1857 and 1858: with a detailed account of the mechanical and scientific part of the work, as well as biographical sketches of Messrs. Cyrus W. Field, William E. Everett, and other prominent persons connected with the enterprise.

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329 p. illus., 5 plates (part. fold.) 2fold. maps. 24 cm.

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University of Michigan. Libraries

Collection:

New York,: D. Appleton and company, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library

Subject Topic:

Cables, Submarine -- Atlantic

Language:

eng

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http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html

URL:

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGX3847.0001.001