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The life story of the late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, civil engineer; with which is incorporated the story of the Atlantic cable, and the first telegraph to India and the colonies

Bright, Edward Brialsford, 1831-, Bright, Charles, 1863- · 1899 · Westminster : A. Constable · 82 pictures

A two-volume biography of submarine telegraph engineer Sir Charles Tilston Bright, written by his brother and son and published in Westminster by A. Constable in 1899 for engineers and the Victorian reading public. Plates mix halftone seascapes of cable fleets with pen-and-ink ship studies and flat line diagrams of paying-out gear, useful for maritime silhouettes and early technical schematics.

Bright, Charles Tilston, Sir, 1832-1888 · Transatlantic cables · Telegraph

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