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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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"The
practical
inference
from
this
law
is,
that
a
telegraphic
communication
on
the
electro-magnetic
plan
may
with
certainty
be
established
across
the
Atlantic
Ocean!
Startling
as
this
may
now
seem,
I
am
confident
the
time
will
come
when
this
project
will
be
realized."
It
was
the
good
fortune
of
Mr.
Field--at
that
time
and
ever
since--to
have
at
hand
an
adviser
in
whose
judgment
he
had
implicit
confidence.
This
was
his
eldest
brother,
David
Dudley
Field.
They
lived
side
by
side
on
Gramercy
Park,
and
were
in
daily
communication.
To
the
prudent
counsels,
wise
judgment
and
unfaltering
courage
of
the
elder
brother,
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
is
more
indebted
than
the
world
will
ever
know,
for
its
first
impulse
and
for
the
spirit
which
sustained
it
through
long
years
of
discouragement
and
disaster,
when
its
friends
were
few.
To
this,
his
nearest
and
best
counsellor,
Mr.
Field
opened
the
project
which
had
taken
possession
of
his
mind;
and
being
strengthened
by
that
maturer
judgment,
he
finally
resolved
that,
if
he
could
get
a
sufficient
number
of
capitalists
to
join
him,
he
would
embark
in
an
enterprise
which,
beginning
with
the
line
to
Newfoundland,
involved
in
the
end
nothing
less
than
an
attempt
to
link
this
New
World
which
Columbus
had
discovered,
to
that
Old
World
which
had
been
for
ages
the
home
of
empire
and
of
civilization.
How
the
scheme
advanced
through
the
next
twelve
years,
it
will
be
our
province
to
relate.
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