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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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Other
experiments
were
tried,
such
as
splicing
the
cable,
and
lowering
it
to
the
bottom
of
the
sea--an
operation
which
it
was
thought
might
be
critical
in
mid-ocean,
but
which
was
performed
without
difficulty--and
running
out
the
cable
at
a
rapid
rate,
when
the
speed
of
the
ship
was
increased
to
seven
knots,
without
causing
the
cable
to
break,
or
even
to
kink.
On
the
whole,
the
result
of
the
trip
was
satisfactory.
The
paying-out
machine
of
Mr.
Everett
worked
well,
and
the
electric
continuity
through
the
whole
cable
was
perfect.
It
was
on
this
expedition
that
was
used
for
the
first
time
the
marine
mirror
galvanometer
of
Professor
Thomson,
by
whom
it
had
been
invented
for
marine
testing
within
the
previous
four
weeks,
and
which
afterwards
proved
an
instrument
so
important
to
the
success
of
ocean
telegraphy.
After
these
experiments
the
squadron
returned
to
Plymouth.
As
it
happened,
the
present
writer
had
just
arrived
in
England,
and
landing
at
Falmouth,
hastened
to
Plymouth,
where
the
ships
were
lying
in
the
Sound.
It
was
Saturday,
the
fifth
of
June,
and
the
next
day,
by
invitation
of
Captain
Hudson,
he
conducted
Divine
service
on
the
Niagara,
where
an
awning
was
spread
over
the
quarter-deck,
round
which
were
grouped
the
officers
of
the
ship,
behind
whom
were
crowded
four
or
five
hundred
seamen.
If
it
was
a
pleasure
in
such
circumstances
to
speak
to
one's
countrymen,
it
was
not
less
to
be
received
with
equal
kindness
on
board
the
Agamemnon.
To
see
these
two
mighty
ships
of
war,
with
their
consorts,
lying
side
by
side,
not
with
guns
run
out,
but
engaged
in
a
mission
of
peace,
seemed
indeed
an
omen
of
the
good
time
coming,
when
nations
shall
learn
war
no
more.
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