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Circuits in the sea : the men, the ships, and the Atlantic cable /

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Message time would be cut from more than four weeks to about two minutes. Such a feat would not have been possible without the massive ship the Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Britain's foremost engineer, or the financial backing of Thomas Brassey, the era's greatest bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hearn, Chester G (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Subjects:
Field, Cyrus W. > (Cyrus West), > 1819-1892.
Great Eastern (Steamship)
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, > 1806-1859.
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, > 1806-1859
Field, Cyrus W. > (Cyrus West), > 1819-1892
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), > 1819-1897.
Field, Cyrus W.
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom.
Transatlantic cables > History.
Câbles sous-marins > Atlantique, Océan > Histoire.
Transatlantic cables.
Seekabel
Geschichte
Great Eastern > Schiff
Atlantischer Ozean
Transatlantische kabels.
Submarine cables > Atlantic > History.
Great Eastern (Steamship).
History.
Online Access:Book review (E-STREAMS)
Book review (E-STREAMS)
Table of Contents:
  • Harnessing the Knowledge
  • A Man without a Mission
  • The Learning Curve Begins
  • The British Alliance
  • "In the Deep Bosom of the Ocean"
  • Ocean Rendezvous
  • Back and Forth across the Ocean
  • An Affair to Remember
  • Jubilations before Death
  • Accusations and Inquest
  • Other Schemes and Other Routes
  • Time-Out for War
  • Of Dollars and Pounds
  • "The Ship to Lay Your Cable"
  • So Close and Yet So Far
  • Acts of Desperation
  • An Elephant Stretching a Cobweb
  • Descriptions of Atlantic Cables of 1858 and 1865.