Diary 1865 [photocopy]

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Diary 1865 [photocopy]

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Photoreproduction of diary kept by James Graves, superintendent of the Valencia Cable Station, the terminus of the 1865 attempt by Cyrus W. Field's Atlantic Telegraph Company to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable. This cable, laid by the steamship Great Eastern, was lost in the Atlantic Ocean. The diary documents the process of bringing the Irish end of the cable ashore, and the investigations into its sudden failure. The company succesfully completed laying the first Transatlantic cable in its next attempt, the following year.

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Graves, James F.

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James Graves was superintendent of the Atlantic Telegraph Company's Valencia Cable Station in Ireland. From the description of Diary 1865 [photocopy] (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 164036027 ...

Great Eastern (Steamship)

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Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892

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Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was a merchant and capitalist who promoted the laying of the first Atlantic cable linking the U.S. with Europe. He formed a company to build cable communications between Newfoundland and Ireland, helped establish elevated trains in New York City, and participated in the development of the Wabash Railroad. Other business ventures included ownership of a New York newspaper, the Mail and Express. From the description of Cyrus W. Field papers, 1831-1905, bulk...

Atlantic Telegraph Company (London)

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