Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 627
reat submarine lines which unite the Old and New Worlds. Morseand Wheatstone about the same time (1843) independently experimentedwith sub-aqueous insulated wires, and their success gave rise to numerousprojects for submarine lines. How far any of these might have been practi-cal need not here be… … Fig. 297.—Snb7nari?te Cable between Dover and Calais, wires, was taken advantage of by Brett and Co., who obtained the right ofestablishing an electric telegraph between France and England, and theysucceeded in laying down the first submarine cable. This cable extendedfrom Dover to Cape Grisnez…
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