Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 355
. States over the event. It surpassed all otherachievements of the age, and equaled the inven-tion of the telegraph itself. Thus, after infinite labor and repeated failures,the brave men who undertook the work accom-plished it. A year before, their third cable hadbroken in mid-ocean, and it was now… … It is a very intricate knot that an old sailor can-not untie, and the old sailors on the Great East-ern twisted and untwisted coil after coil until theysucceeded in untying this one. The insulation re-mained perfect, and in a few hours all was rightagain. The accident caused much ill…
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