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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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"Airy
tongues,
that
syllable
men's
names
On
sands,
and
shores,
and
desert
wildernesses."
These
were
also
years
of
great
progress,
not
only
in
the
science
of
submarine
telegraphy,
but
in
the
construction
of
deep-sea
cables.
In
spite
of
the
failure
of
that
in
the
Red
Sea,
one
was
laid
down
in
the
Mediterranean,
1,535
miles
long,
from
Malta
to
Alexandria,
and
another
in
the
Persian
Gulf,
1,400
miles
long,
by
which
telegraphic
communication
was
finally
opened
from
England
to
India.
Others
were
laid
in
different
seas
and
oceans
in
distant
parts
of
the
world.
These
great
triumphs,
following
the
scientific
experiments
which
had
been
made,
revived
public
confidence,
and
prepared
the
way
for
a
fresh
attempt
to
pass
the
Atlantic.
Yet
not
much
was
done
to
renew
the
enterprise
until
1862.
Mr.
Field
had
been
indefatigable
in
his
efforts
to
reanimate
the
Company.
He
was
continually
going
back
and
forth
to
the
British
Provinces
and
to
England,
urging
it
wherever
his
voice
could
be
heard.
Yet
times
were
adverse.
The
United
States
had
been
suddenly
involved
in
a
tremendous
war,
which
called
into
the
field
hundreds
of
thousands
of
men,
and
entailed
a
burden
of
many
hundreds
of
millions.
While
engaged
in
this
life-and-death
struggle,
and
rolling
up
a
mountain
of
debt,
our
people
had
little
thought
to
bestow
on
great
enterprises
by
land
or
sea.
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