The Cable

• Date de parution : 03/01/2013
• Editeur : History Press Digital
• EAN : 9780752488004
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• Support : Livre numérique

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The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid - the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. The Cable tells of the dramatic efforts to lay the Atlantic telegraph during the 1850s and 1860s, from the first failed attempts to the expedition that... Voir plus

The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid - the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. The Cable tells of the dramatic efforts to lay the Atlantic telegraph during the 1850s and 1860s, from the first failed attempts to the expedition that finally succeeded. An inconceivably audacious endeavour to overcome the forces of nature in the name of human progress and technology, the laying of the cable was to change forever our means of communication.