Records created and used by the Submarine Telegraph Company 1853-1890

Carmichael, James Robert. 2nd Baronet, 1817-1883

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Brett, John Watkins 1805-1863

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Submarine Telegraph Company; 1851-1889; telegraph company

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The Submarine Telegraph Company was founded in 1851 by John Watkins Brett, Thomas Russell Crampton, Lord de Mauley and Sir James Carmichael. The company was granted an exclusive concession by the French government to lay a cable from England to France under the English channel. The first cable was completed on 28 August 1850, but failed days later. A second cable to France was completed on 25 September 1851. The exclusive concession to run cables to France was opposed by the British...

Crampton, Thomas Russell 1816-1888

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Ponsonby, William Francis Spencer. 1st Baron de Mauley entrepreneur

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