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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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12.
That
with
a
steam-engine
attached
to
the
paying-out
machinery,
should
a
fault
be
discovered
on
board
whilst
laying
the
cable,
it
is
possible
that
it
might
be
recovered
before
it
had
reached
the
bottom
of
the
Atlantic,
and
repaired
at
once.
S.
Canning,
Engineer-in-Chief,
Telegraph
Construction
and
Maintenance
Company.
James
Anderson,
Commander
of
the
Great
Eastern.
Henry
A.
Moriarty,
Staff
Commander,
R.
N.
Daniel
Gooch,
M.P.,
Chairman
of
"Great
Ship
Co."
Henry
Clifford,
Engineer.
William
Thomson,
LL.D.,
F.R.S.,
Prof.
of
Natural
Philosophy
in
the
University
of
Glasgow.
Cromwell
F.
Varley,
Consulting
Electrician
Electric
and
International
Telegraph
Co.
Willoughby
Smith.
Jules
Despecher.
This
was
a
grand
result
to
be
attained
in
one
short
month;
and
if
not
quite
so
gratifying
as
to
have
the
cable
laid
at
once,
and
the
wire
in
full
operation,
yet
as
it
settled
the
chief
elements
of
success,
the
moral
effect
was
next
to
that
of
an
immediate
triumph.
All
who
were
on
that
voyage
felt
a
confidence
such
as
they
had
never
felt
before.
They
came
back,
not
desponding
and
discouraged,
but
buoyant
with
hope,
and
ready
at
once
to
renew
the
attempt.
This
confidence
appeared
at
the
first
meeting
of
directors.
The
feeling
was
very
different
from
that
after
the
return
of
the
first
expedition
of
1858.
So
animated
were
they
with
hope,
and
so
sure
of
success
the
next
time,
that
all
felt
that
one
cable
was
not
enough,
they
must
have
two,
and
so
it
was
decided
to
take
measures
not
only
to
raise
the
broken
end
of
the
cable
and
to
complete
it
to
Newfoundland,
but
also
to
construct
and
lay
an
entirely
new
one,
so
as
to
have
a
double
line
in
operation
the
following
summer.
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