Ternant, A. L. (Alcide Ludovic), 1832-1884 · London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 186
1 68 1HE TELEGRAPH, The cables must be landed in barges or shallow boats that can go up to the beach. Boats of little draught can land the cable at high water, and it will be left by the receding tide. Sometimes barges must be used, but in nearly all cases the workmen have to wade through the water… … Fig. 108. pose, especially where the distance between high and low water is large, as was the case with the Atlantic cable. The steamer Caroline laid the shore cable in 1865 and the William Cory did the same for the shore cable of 1866 : in both cases the cable was brought to the shore first by…
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