History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
Atlantic Cables
1857-58, 1865-66
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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Atlantic Cables |
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1857-1858 Cables Prince Edward Island Cable - the first link, 1852 The Atlantic Cable Projectors - where it all began: 1854-1895 The Atlantic Telegraph - Cyrus Field's 1856 prospectus for the company Professor Hall's Floating Stations - an unsuccessful 1857 proposal Cabot Strait Cable and 1857-58 Atlantic Cables by Bill Glover On Submarine Electric Telegraphs - paper given by Frederick R. Window in January 1857 to the Institution of Civil Engineers, including comments on the problems of long submarine lines The landing of the Irish shore end of the 1857 cable A song by James Clerk Maxwell on the failure of the 1857 cable On Submerging Telegraphic Cables - report on a paper read at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 16 February 1858, by Mr. J.A. Longridge, M. Inst. C.E., and Mr. C.H. Brooks. On the Practical Operations connected with the Paying-Out and Repairing of Submarine Telegraph Cables - paper presented on 23 February 1858 to the Institution of Civil Engineers by Frederick C. Webb. On the Submergence of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - lecture given in March 1858 to the United Service Institution Henry M. Field's account of meeting the Telegraph Squadron in June 1858 The 1858 cable expedition as reported in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York The New York Chamber of Comerce Tiffany gold medals - and Richard Williamson's story David Dudley Field's speech on September 1st 1858 at the Crystal Palace celebration of the laying of the cable The 1858 cable celebration in New York Messages Carried by the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph Cable William Thomson on the 1858 cable and instruments The First Atlantic Telegraph Cable, by John Mullaly - a 1907 recap of his original writings Wildman Whitehouse and the 1857-58 Atlantic cables - a comprehensive history of the life and work of the Electrician of the 1857-58 Atlantic Cables William Thomson and the 1857-58 Atlantic Cables - another point of view George Saward’s The Trans-Atlantic Submarine Telegraph
Interlude The Atlantic and South Atlantic Telegraphs - Frederick R. Window's anonymous pamphlet on the shortcomings of the 1858 cable, and a proposed South Atlantic route [1859] Index to the Report of the Joint Committee Appointed by the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to Inquire into the Construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables [1861] Bridging the Gap – News Telegraphs 1863-1870 by Steven Roberts The Northern Line – The Arctic Cables by Steven Roberts Henry O'Rielly and the Russo-American Telegraph Cyrus Field at the New-York Chamber of Commerce - 1863 Cyrus Field's Banquet - London, April 1864 1865-1866 Cables Making the 1865 Atlantic Cable - a visit to the factory at Greenwich William Russell and Robert Dudley's book: The Atlantic Telegraph - high resolution scans of the cover, title page, and the tinted lithographs from the book recording the events of the 1865 Great Eastern cable expedition William Russell's manuscript diary of the 1865 expedition John C. Deane's diary of the 1865 expedition Original letter from Sir Daniel Gooch describing the loss of the cable on the 1865 Great Eastern expedition Henry O'Neil's accounts of the 1865 and 1866 cable expeditions Portraits on the Voyage - photographs and sketches of some of the key figures of 1865 The Manufacture of the 1865 and 1866 Atlantic Cables Letter from Sir Robert Peel to John C. Deane, later Secretary of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, concerning the loss of the 1865 cable Atlantic Telegraph Cable - address of Professor William Thomson to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 1865 cable The Anglo-American Telegraph Company - formed to lay the 1866 cable, the company remained in business for over a hundred years Description of the Paying-Out and Picking-Up Machinery in 1866, by George Elliot of Glass, Elliot. Shipboard Publishing and Printing on Great Eastern in 1865 and 1866 Detailed description of the Recovery of the Cable in 1866, from Henry M. Field's book On the Atlantic Telegraph - 1867 lecture by Cromwell F. Varley on the theory behind long submarine cables The Cables and Iceberg - 1867 damage to the 1866 Atlantic cable by an iceberg at the mouth of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland On The Causes Of Failure Of Deep-Sea Cables - 1884 article by James Graves Sample Case: Atlantic Cables of 1858, 1865, 1866 Bern Dibner’s book The Atlantic Cable, published in 1958, is an excellent reference for the 1857 -1866 Atlantic cables, and is available on line at the Smithsonian Institution's website. Atlantic Cable Broadsides Posters for the Public - a record of how the cable captured the imagination in Britain and America Collage of Atlantic Cable Documents Historical document collage - but all are reproductions Cable Signalling Speeds Comparision of transmission speeds from early to modern cables Salient Features In Cable Design Since 1850 - a timeline of cable technical developments from 1850 to 1959 by Submarine Cables Ltd. |
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Last revised: 17 November, 2011 |
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