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 170
t to false fever it swerve,Touch it with tenderest truth As the worlds exquisite nerve !140 THE ATLANTIC CABLE Let the first message across, High-hearted Commerce, give heed,Not be of profit or loss, But one electric indeed ;Praise to the Giver be given For that He giveth man skill,Praise to the… … MR. C. T. BRIGHT[From the Illustrated London Nezvs at this period] carry out perhaps the most important and certainlythe most surprising enterprise of the century. Histask was to enable the people of the two great 141 SIR CHARLES TILSTON BRIGHT Continents to speak together, in a few momentsof time,…
Bright, Charles Tilston, Sir, 1832-1888 · Transatlantic cables · Telegraph
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