In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865, 1865, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 7 1/8 in. × 10 in. (18.1 × 25.4 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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Bows, Great Eastern, Cable Broken, Lost, Preparing, Grapple, August 2nd, 1865, Watercolor, graphite, touches, gouache, Sheet, 7 1/8, 10, 18.1, 25.4 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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