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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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Captain
Sir
James
Anderson
repeated
the
same
conviction
in
numberless
forms.
He
had
seen
how
the
presence
of
Mr.
Field
in
London
instantly
revived
the
languid
enthusiasm
of
others,
and
infused
his
own
energy
into
the
enterprise,
and
declared
again
and
again
that
but
for
these
heroic
and
incessant
efforts
the
whole
scheme
would
have
broken
down,
and
been
delayed
for
many
years.
Such
expressions
from
English
associates
in
the
great
work
might
be
multiplied
to
any
extent.
They
are
much
stronger
than
any
language
used
by
the
author
of
this
volume,
who
has
purposely
kept
back
such
testimonies,
lest
it
should
seem
that
he
wished
to
exalt
an
individual,
when
he
sought
to
do
justice
to
all,
on
both
sides
of
the
Atlantic.
Nor
was
such
recognition
confined
to
England.
The
King
of
Italy
conferred
on
Mr.
Field
the
cross
of
the
order
of
St.
Mauritius,
as
an
acknowledgment
from
the
country
of
Columbus
to
one
who
had
done
so
much
to
unite
to
the
Old
World
that
New
World
which
Columbus
discovered.
A
still
higher
honor
was
paid
by
the
Great
Exposition
in
Paris,
in
1867,
which,
gathering
the
products
of
the
genius
and
skill
and
industry
of
all
nations,
recognized
the
labors
of
men
of
all
countries,
who,
by
their
discoveries
or
great
enterprises,
had
rendered
eminent
services
to
the
cause
of
civilization.
It
awarded
the
GRAND
PRIZE,
the
highest
distinction
it
had
to
bestow,
to
Mr.
Field
by
name,
jointly
with
the
Anglo-American
and
Atlantic
Telegraph
Companies,
thus
recognizing,
as
was
most
due,
the
splendid
exhibition
of
the
science
and
the
capital
of
England,
which
were
never
more
directly
employed
for
the
benefit
of
the
human
race,
than
in
the
uniting
of
the
two
Hemispheres,
while
it
gave
the
first
place
in
the
grand
design
to
its
American
leader.
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