Finally, I would say, that I examined a piece of the Atlantic cable, which broke here on the attempt to lay it. In one instance I found each one of the seven copper wires constituting the ...

The two larger ships met on the 28th of June, and for the third time connected the cable ; they then started afresh, and the Niagara having paid out over one hundred and fifty miles of cable ...

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The accounts which come to us from England are positively flaming with the wonderful achievements of quick telegraphing, by Hughes' instrument, through the Atlantic cable. It is reported to have ...

March 3: On his last day in office, President Franklin Pierce signs the Atlantic Cable Act. May 14: The U.S.S. Niagara, assigned to assist H.M.S. Agamemnon in laying the transatlantic cable ...

The wealthy businessmen and fellow New Yorkers who financed Cyrus Field's vision of a submarine cable across the Atlantic and served as the board of the company that would make that vision a ...