Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 630
ught several times bygrapnels, and raised a mile or more from the bottom, but the tackle proved 37 578 THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. unable lo resist the strain, and four times it broke; and after the spot hadbeen marked by buoys, the Great Eastern steamed home to announce thefailure of the great… … Fig. 299.—The Ini1runient-Roo7n at Valentia. But these disasters did not crush the hopes of the promoters of the greatenterprise, and in the following year the Great Eastern again sailed witha new cable, the construction of which is shown of the actual size, inFig. 301. In this there is a strand of…
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