21 Old Queen Street, Westminster, S. W.,
October, 1903.

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CONTENTS

[PART I]
PAGE
Introductory[13]
[PART II]
The Pioneer Line
CHAP.
[I.] Evolution of Atlantic Telegraphy inAmerica and England[27]
[II.] The Manufacture of the Line[46]
[III.] The First Start[61]
[IV.] Preparations for Another Attempt[74]
[V.] The Trial Trip[84]
[VI.] The Storm[89]
[VII.] The Renewed Effort[105]
[VIII.] “Finis Coronat Opus”[115]
[IX.] The Celebration[137]
[X.] Working the Line[144]
[XI.] The Inquest[155]
[PART III]
Intermediate Knowledge and Advance
[XII.] Other Proposed Routes[161]
[XIII.] Experience, Investigation, and Progress[169]
[PART IV]
Commercial Success
[XIV.] The 1865 Cable and Expedition[177]
[XV.] Second and Successful Attempt[188]
[XVI.] Recovery and Completion of the 1865Cable[197]
[XVII.] Jubilations[208]
[XVIII.] Subsequent Atlantic Lines[212]
[XIX.] Atlantic Cable Systems of To-day[219]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

H.M.S. Agamemnon entering Valentia Bay withfirst Atlantic Cable [Frontispiece]
FIG. PAGE
[1.]Newfoundland Telegraph Station, 1855[29]
[2.]The Brooke “Sounder”[32]
[3.]Specimen of the Ocean Bed[34]
[4.]John Watkins Brett, Charles Tilston Bright, CyrusWest Field—Projectors[38]
[5.]Manufacture of the Core[49]
[6.]Serving the Core with Hemp-Yarn[50]
[7.]Applying the Iron Sheathing[51]
[8.]The Deep-Sea Cable[52]
[9.]The Shore-End Cable[52]
[10.]Coiling the Finished Cable into the Factory Tanks[54]
[11.]U.S.N.S. Niagara[55]
[12.]The Paying-out Machine, 1857[57]
[13.]Coiling the Cable on Board[58]
[14.]Landing the Irish End of the Cable[63]
[15.]Reshipment of the Cable aboard H.M.S. Agamemnonand U.S.N.S. Niagara in KeyhamBasin[75]
[16.]The Self-Releasing Brake[77]
[17.]The Principle of the Brake[78]
[18.]Bright’s Paying-out Gear, 1858[80]
[19.]The Reflecting Magnet[82]
[20.]Reflecting Galvanometer and Speaker[83]
[21.]Principle of the Reflecting Instrument[83]
[22.]Deck of H.M.S. Agamemnon with Paying-outApparatus[84]
[23.]Stowage of the Cable Coil on the Niagara[85]
[24.]The Loading of the Agamemnon[85]
[25.]Experimental Maneuvers in the Bay of Biscay[88]
[26.]H.M.S. Agamemnon in a Storm[96]
[27.]The Agamemnon Storm: Coals Adrift[103]
[28.]In Collision with a Whale while Cable-Laying[123]
[29.]Landing the American End[133]
[30.]Newfoundland Telegraph Station, 1858{10}[135]
[31.]Facsimile of the First Public News Message Receivedthrough the Atlantic Cable[150]
[32.]The North Atlantic Telegraph Project, 1860[162]
[33.]The North Atlantic Exploring Expedition, 1860[167]
[34.]The Main Cable, 1865-’66[180]
[35.]The Great Eastern at Sea[183]
[36.]Cable and Machinery aboard S.S. Great Eastern[185]
[37.]The Picking-up Machine, 1866[191]
[38.]Buoys, Grapnels, Mushrooms—and Men[193]
[39.]“Foul in Tank” while Paying-out[196]
[40.]S.S. Great Eastern Completing the Second AtlanticCable[199]
[41.]Diagram Illustrative of the Final Tactics Adoptedfor Picking up the 1865 Cable[203]
[42.]S.S. Great Eastern with 1865 Cable at Bows[205]
[43.]Anglo-American Atlantic Cable (1894): deep-seatype[217]
[44.]Shore-End of the 1894 “Anglo” Cable[217]
[45.]Atlantic Cable Systems, 1903[221]

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