The Atlantic Telegraph (1865‪)‬

A fisherman hauls a telegraph cable from the Channel seabed, cuts off a piece, and exhibits it in Boulogne as rare seaweed with gold at its heart.

Writing in 1865, Sir William Howard Russell follows the electrical experiments and submarine cables that made instant communication seem less like a dream—and asks who truly deserves credit when one person imagines an invention and another makes it work. The Channel has been crossed, but the Atlantic is a far greater leap. Cyrus Field and the engineers who rally to the project must persuade a skeptical world that a delicate electric current can carry messages beneath an ocean. What will it take to turn that audacious promise into a working link between continents?

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