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The life story of the late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, civil engineer; with which is incorporated the story of the Atlantic cable, and the first telegraph to India and the colonies (1899)

Bright, Edward Brialsford, 1831-, Bright, Charles, 1863- · Westminster : A. Constable · leaf 135

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, expressed it, withno experience in the business of laying a sub-marine telegraph, the presiding genius of theNewfoundland Company was despatched to Eng-land at the end of 1854, where he ordered acable of about eighty miles, to span the Gulf ofSt. Lawrence between Cape Ray and the Islandof Cape… … MR. JOHN WATKINS BRETT In the spring of 1855, Mr. Brett took ^5,000 inshares and bonds in the Newfoundland Com-pany, thus becoming a partner on equal terms

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