Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 629
us instruments invented by SirW. Thompson,may be seen his mirror galvanometer. After several mishaps, which re-quired the cable to be raised for repairs after it had been laid in deepwater, the Great Eastern had paid out about 1,186 miles of cable, and was1,062 miles from Valentia, when a loss of… … ■^I ^ more resorted to. During this process the cable parted, and Fig. 300shows the scene on board the Great Eastern produced by this occurrence,as represented by an artist of the Illustrated London News who accom-panied the expedition. The broken cable was caught several times bygrapnels, and…
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