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 418
largest of which would support aweight of twenty tons. As on the previous ex-pedition, several kinds of grapnels were put onboard, some of the ordinary sort, and some withsprings to prevent the cable surging and thus ?.88 THE ATLANTIC CABLE escaping whilst the grapnel was still dragging onthe… … BUOYS, GRAPNELS, MUSHROOMS—AND MEN Most of this apparatus was furnished by Messrs.Brown, Lenox & Co., the famous chain, cable,anchor, and buoy engineers, several of the grapnelsbeinof to their design, as well as the connections. The propelling machinery of the Great Eastern 389 SIR CHARLES…
Bright, Charles Tilston, Sir, 1832-1888 · Transatlantic cables · Telegraph
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