Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 179
and similar subma- THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 163 rine telegraph cables have been laid down from Doverto Ostend, from Harwich to the Hague, from Scotlandto Ireland, and across the Mediterranean Sea as faras Malta. The w^eight and \he cost of those cablespresent a serious obstacle to their adoption in…
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