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 416
oast of Ireland,eight miles of the heaviest was to be laid, theneight miles of the intermediate, and lastly fourteenmiles of the lightest type, making thirty miles ofshoal-water cable on the Irish side. Five miles 386 THE ATLANTIC CABLE of shallow-water cable, of the different typesnamed, were… … THE SHORE-END CABLE Though different in details, the main improve-ment over the 1865 gear consisted in the factthat a 70 horse-power steam-engine was fittedto drive the two large drums in such a waythat the paying-out machinery could be usedto pick up cable during the laying, if necessary/ ^ As has…
Bright, Charles Tilston, Sir, 1832-1888 · Transatlantic cables · Telegraph
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