The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern, 1865, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 7/16 × 9 11/16 in. (16.3 × 24.6 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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Old Frigate Iris, Freight, Cable Alongside, Great Eastern, Sheerness, Passed, Hulk, 1865, Watercolor, graphite, touches, gouache, Sheet, 6 7/16, 9 11/16, 16.3, 24.6 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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