Category: History - Modern (1750+)
I shall not detain the readers of this brief narrative with any sketch of the progress of electrical science. There are text-books, cyclopædias, and treatises full of information concerning the men who worked in early days, and recording the labours of those who still toil on,...
_Aug. 6th, Sunday._--It was very thick all through the night--fog, rain, drizzle alternately, and all together. When morning broke, the Terrible was visible for a moment in a li...
3. Part 3Whenever separate lengths of the gutta percha covered core were to be joined together, the gutta percha was scraped away for a short distance from the ends, and these were made...
9. Part 9_July 27th._--Morning broke on a bright bounding sea and clear blue sky. From the Testing-Room came gratifying reports of the improved insulation of the Cable, which had been ca...
13. Part 13_August 11th._--Nothing to record of the night and early morning, save that both were fine, and that the capstan took in the iron fishing-line easily till 5·20 a.m., ship’s time...
11. Part 11It was 10·30 a.m., Greenwich time, when the Cable came in over the bow. We were now in very deep water, but had we been a few miles more to the west we should have been over the...
7. Part 7When the excitement caused by the landing of the Cable was abated, the Knight of Kerry was called on to speak to the people assembled outside the Instrument Room, and said:--“I...
5. Part 5The covering of the conductor with its dielectric or insulating sheath was effected as follows:--The centre wire of the copper strand was first covered with a coating of gutta p...
2. Part 2Professor Morse, in 1843, indicated his conviction that a magnetic current could be conveyed across the Atlantic, and his reply to Mr. Field was now given with increased confide...
4. Part 4Experienced mariners gazed with apprehension at their depth in water as they left the shore. It was, however, such glorious weather as to cause some anxiety lest there should be...
1. Part 1I shall not detain the readers of this brief narrative with any sketch of the progress of electrical science. There are text-books, cyclopædias, and treatises full of informatio...
6. Part 6This dynamometer was only a heavy wheel resting on the rope, but fixed in an upright frame, which allowed it to slide freely up and down, and on this frame were marked the figur...
8. Part 830. The batteries to be kept in an efficient state, especially those for sending reversals--their force taken periodically, and if any variation occur, they must be renewed, or...
14. Part 14On October 12, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Atlantic Telegraph Company was held, at which the Chairman, the Right Hon. J. S. Wortley, proposed a Resolution rescinding...
10. Part 10_Monday, July 31st._--We have been passing over the valley in the Atlantic which is more than two miles deep. With the morning came the news that all had gone well during the ni...
15. Part 15----+-------------------------+---------------------+---------+ | | Iron. | | No. | Cable. +-----------+---------+ lbs. + | | Weight. | Length. | G. P. | ----+------------------...
16. Part 16[1] “From Cape Freels, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 miles; from Cape Charles, or Cape St. Lewis, Labrador, to ditto, the distance is 1,601 miles.”