Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Bird's-eye view of Morden College

Bird's-eye view of Morden College

With a street scene including a boy playing with a hoop and a dog

The trader has painted his barrow like a Palermitan cart

Charlemagne (c742-814) was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD by Leo III

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Bird's-eye view of Morden CollegeManufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich. The cable, connecting Valentia island, off the Irish coast, and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, was successfully laid in the summer of 1866 by Brunel's steamship, the 'Great Eastern'. From The Atlantic Telegraph by William Howard Russell, published 1866.