Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 286
s of which weighedmore than four thousand tons. The largest vessel in theworld, the Great Eastern, was employed to carry and lay it.On July 23d, 1865, the steamer started from Ireland and con-tinued on its westward course until August 2d; then thecable parted, more than a thousand miles from the… … THE GREAT EASTERN. 284 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. the previous year, if possible. In fourteen days the steamerentered the harbor in Newfoundland. Two months later thesame steamer again reached Newfoundland, having capturedthe missing end of the other wire, thereby completing twocables from…
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