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Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - Temporary Station at Dover...1850. Creator: Unknown.

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Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - Temporary Station at Dover - Steamers preparing to Start, 1850. Ships laying a telegraph cable between England and France. 'The only conjectured difficulty on the route was at a point in mid-channel, called the Ridge, between which and another inequality called the Varne, both well known and dreaded by navigators, there is a deep submarine valley, surrounded by shifting sands, the one being seventeen miles and the other twelve miles in length. Here ships encounter danger, lose their anchors, and drift; and trolling nets of fishermen are frequently lost. The submarine telegraph line was, however, successfully submerged'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM22A36_139

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Droits gérés

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22,8Mo (2,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 13,6cm / 4960 x 1607 (300dpi)

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transport transportation sea coast England technology communication communications cable coastal industry ship ships British geography steamer industrial innovation telecommunications Victorian century Dover Kent Britain newspapers press concept channel telecommunication B&W engraved engraving English Channel shipping Industry steamship 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector cable-laying electric telegraphy geographical feature Illustrated London News steam ship telegraphy TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century Edwin Weedon Weedon Edwin