Title

Picking up the Atlantic cable, 1866 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Picking up the Atlantic cable, 1866 (c1880). An attempt in 1865 by Brunel's giant steamship, the 'Great Eastern' to lay a transatlantic telegraph 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 of the Atlantic became a matter of seconds. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_314

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (5,4Mb) / 11,0in x 17,6in / 3300 x 5291 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation ocean sea technology communications cable success achievement ship ships British geography progress Atlantic Ocean Victorian century Britain concept B&W accomplishment MONOCHROME transatlantic steamship 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Great Eastern telegraph cable telegraphy transatlantic communications cable engraving Unknown Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel Isambard Kingdom Edmund Edmund Ollier Ollier Edmund Ollier Isambard Kingdom Brunel engraving