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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
254
Such
accidents
had
been
anticipated,
and
before
the
Great
Eastern
left
England,
she
had
been
provided
with
machinery
to
be
used
in
case
of
necessity
for
picking
up
the
cable.
But
this
proved
rather
an
unwieldy
affair.
It
was
at
the
bow,
and
as
the
paying-out
machine
was
at
the
stern,
the
ship
had
to
be
got
round,
and
the
cable,
which
must
first
be
cut,
had
to
be
transferred
from
one
end
to
the
other.
This
was
not
an
easy
matter.
The
Great
Eastern
was
an
eighth
of
a
mile
long,
and
to
carry
the
cable
along
her
sides
for
this
distance,
and
over
her
high
wheel-houses,
was
an
operation
at
once
tedious
and
difficult.
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