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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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1st.
To
begin
with,
the
cable
was
not
constructed
in
the
most
perfect
manner.
Its
makers,
though
the
best
then
in
the
world,
had
had
but
little
experience
in
making
deep-sea
cables.
No
line
over
three
hundred
miles
long
had
ever
been
laid.
2d.
It
had
been
made
more
than
a
year
before.
After
it
was
finished,
part
of
it
had
been
coiled
out
of
doors,
where
it
was
exposed
to
a
burning
sun,
by
which,
as
was
afterward
found,
the
gutta-percha
had
been
melted
in
many
places
till
the
insulation
was
nearly
destroyed.
3d.
It
had
been
put
on
board
the
ships
in
1857,
and
after
the
first
failure,
had
been
taken
out
and
coiled
on
the
dock
at
Plymouth,
and
then
re-shipped
in
1858.
Thus
it
had
been
twisted
and
untwisted,
some
portions
of
it
as
many
as
ten
times.
Then
the
Agamemnon
was
so
shaken
in
the
terrible
gale
of
June,
that
the
cable
on
board
of
her
was
seriously
injured,
and
some
portions
were
cut
out
and
condemned.
Taking
all
these
things
together,
the
wonder
is,
not
that
the
cable
failed
after
a
month,
but
that
it
ever
worked
at
all!
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