EditorialCoiling the cable in the after-tank on board the Great Eastern at Sheerness. Visit of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on May 24th, Transatlantic Cable on Sailboat Great Eastern, Signed: T. Picken, lith., from a drawing by R. Dudley; London, Day & Son, Limit...
EditorialA Telegraph & Express Map of the Eastern States of North America. Lloyd's Railroad, Telegraph & Express Map of the Eastern States to accompany Lloyd's Railroad, Telegraph & Express Map of the United States and Canadas. New York, 1863. Source: Maps 7149...
EditorialTelegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865, 1865?66, Watercolor with touches of gouache, Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/16 in. (14.6 x 23.4 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a t...
EditorialH.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line, 1865?66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 15/16 ? 9 13/16 in. (17.7 ? 25 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of...
EditorialThe Atlantic Telegraph, [1866], Illustrations: color lithography, 16 15/16 x 12 1/16 x 1 3/16 in. (43 x 30.6 x 3 cm), Books, This book documents the great 19th century technological achievement of laying a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic to allo...
EditorialThe United States. American West. 19th century. Telegraph installation. Workers installing new telegraph poles near Nebraska mountains. Colored engraving.
EditorialMorse, Samuel (1791-1872). American inventor of the Registrar Electromagnetic Telegraph, as well as two separate devices for sending and receiving messages (1832-1835).
EditorialQuadruplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1874. It could send and receive four telegraph messages simultaneously on a single wire, two signals in each direction. Engraving.
EditorialThe United States. American West. 19th century. Telegraph installation. Workers installing new telegraph poles near Nebraska mountains. Colored engraving.
EditorialTHE GREEK ROUT: AN INCIDENT OF THE STAMPEDE ON THE ROAD TO LARISSA, GREECE, 1897; Panic completely overtook the Greek army. A whole battery of artillery took to flight and crashed through everything. Horses and carts were hurled down the embankment and...
EditorialThe laying of the cable: John and Jonathan joining hands, 1858. A crude but engaging picture, celebrating the goodwill between Great Britain and the United States generated by the successful completion of the Atlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundla...
EditorialSearching for fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic, July 31st, Transatlantic Cable on the Sailor Great Eastern, July 31, 1865, Signed: From a drawing by R. Dudley; Day & Son, Limited, Lith, Fig. 18, p. 72, Dudley, Robert (ill....
EditorialTelegraph Poles. Dated: c.1900. Dimensions: image: 18.9 x 10.5 cm (7 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 28.5 x 17.5 cm (11 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.). Medium: photogravure.
EditorialView of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, with 2,700 inhabitants in 400 homes, 1821. Showing the government building, school, church, prison, battery and telegraph signals. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur K...