The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory, 1866, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 12 13/16 × 21 5/16 in. (32.6 × 54.2 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826–1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer
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Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled, Berehaven, Southwest Coast, Ireland, Ships, Great Eastern, H.M.S, Terrible, Alby, Medway, William Cory, 1866, Watercolor, graphite, touches, gouache, Sheet, 12 13/16, 21 5/16, 32.6, 54.2 cm, Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley, British, 1826–1909, 19th century, great technological achievements, lay, telegraphic cable, beneath, Atlantic, allowing messages, speed back, forth, North America, Europe, minutes, ten, twelve days, steamer
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