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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Next
year
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
were
linked
together.
In
May,
1853,
England
was
joined
to
Holland
by
a
cable
across
the
North
Sea,
from
Orfordness
to
the
Hague.
It
was
laid
by
the
Monarch,
a
paddle
steamer
which
had
been
fitted
for
the
work.
During
the
night
she
met
with
such
heavy
weather
that
the
engineer
was
lashed
near
the
brakes;
and
the
electrician,
Mr.
Latimer
Clark,
sent
the
continuity
signals
by
jerking
a
needle
instrument
with
a
string.
These
and
other
efforts
in
the
Mediterranean
and
elsewhere
were
the
harbingers
of
the
memorable
enterprise
which
bound
the
Old
World
and
the
New.
Bishop
Mullock,
head
of
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
in
Newfoundland,
was
lying
becalmed
in
his
yacht
one
day
in
sight
of
Cape
Breton
Island,
and
began
to
dream
of
a
plan
for
uniting
his
savage
diocese
to
the
mainland
by
a
line
of
telegraph
through
the
forest
from
St.
John's
to
Cape
Ray,
and
cables
across
the
mouth
of
the
St.
Lawrence
from
Cape
Ray
to
Nova
Scotia.
St.
John's
was
an
Atlantic
port,
and
it
seemed
to
him
that
the
passage
of
news
between
America
and
Europe
could
thus
be
shortened
by
forty-eight
hours.
On
returning
to
St.
John's
he
published
his
idea
in
the
COURIER
by
a
letter
dated
November
8,
1850.
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