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 86
long undergroundcircuits, by discharging to earth and thus neutra-lising the recoil currents. From that time till thespring of 1854, they carried out a series of experi-ments on the great lengths of subterranean wiresunder their control, in order to investigate thisnovel phenomena presented by the… … MISS TAYLOR (afterwards Lady Bright, from a drawing by her youngest daughter) 6i LAND TELEGRAPHS of the long gutta-percha-covered conductors, withthe view to working through an Atlantic cable.This had been the great object which CharlesBright had in view in pushing on the Companysextension in the…
Bright, Charles Tilston, Sir, 1832-1888 · Transatlantic cables · Telegraph
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