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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
247
The
electrical
department
was
under
charge
of
Mr.
De
Sauty,
who
had
had
long
experience
in
submarine
telegraphs,
and
who
was
aided
by
an
efficient
corps
of
assistants.
Professor
Thomson
and
Mr.
Varley,
as
we
have
said,
were
there
to
examine
and
report
for
the
Atlantic
Company.
All
these
gentlemen
had
been
unceasing
in
their
tests
of
the
cable
in
every
form,
both
while
in
the
process
of
manufacture
and
after
it
was
coiled
in
the
Great
Eastern.
The
result
of
their
repeated
tests
was
to
demonstrate
that
the
cable
was
many
times
more
perfect
than
the
contract
required.
With
such
marvellous
delicacy
did
they
test
the
current
of
electricity
sent
through
it,
that
it
was
determined
that
of
one
thousand
parts,
over
nine
hundred
and
ninety-nine
came
out
at
the
other
end!
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