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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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Hence
it
was
that
the
subject
of
submarine
telegraphs
was
so
much
better
understood
in
England
than
in
America,
not
only
by
scientific
men,
but
by
capitalists.
The
appeal
could
be
made
to
them
with
more
assurance
of
intelligent
sympathy.
And
yet
so
vast
was
the
undertaking,
that
it
required
ceaseless
effort
to
roll
the
stone
to
the
top
of
the
mountain,
and
the
result
was
not
completely
achieved
till
the
beginning
of
the
year
1864.
CHAPTER
XIV.
THE
EXPEDITION
OF
1865.
It
is
a
long
night
which
has
no
morning.
At
last
the
day
is
breaking.
While
weary
eyes
are
watching
the
East,
daylight
comes
over
the
sea.
Five
years
have
passed
away,
and
though
the
time
seemed
long
as
an
Arctic
winter,
that
only
made
more
bright
the
rising
of
the
sun.
Those
years
of
patient
experiment,
when
scientific
men
were
applying
tests
without
number,
and
submarine
lines
were
feeling
their
way
along
the
deep-sea
floor
in
all
the
waters
of
the
world,
at
last
brought
forth
their
fruit
in
that
renewed
confidence
which
is
the
forerunner
of
victory.
So
strong
was
this
feeling,
that
as
early
as
August,
1863,
although
the
capital
was
not
raised,
the
Board
advertised
for
proposals
for
a
cable
suitable
to
be
laid
across
the
Atlantic
Ocean;
and
in
order
to
leave
invention
entirely
unfettered,
abstained
from
any
dictation
as
to
the
form
or
materials
to
be
adopted,
merely
stipulating
for
a
working
speed
of
eight
words
a
minute.
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