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The Rhodes Colossus, 1892 Artist: Edward Linley SambourneThe Rhodes Colossus, 1892. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), English-born South African businessman and statesman, shown striding across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo with a telegraph wire
Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable, 1865
Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865, 1865
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Creator: UnknownElectric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Crimean War. The appliances for laying out the wire over irregular ground, and through marshes and rivers
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Creator: UnknownElectric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Crimean War. The Electric Telegraph Company have lately supplied Government with a very complete
The Great Eastern, 1860: The Vessel leaving Southampton on her First Voyage, June 17, (1901). The SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with John Scott
Cape to Cairo, 1899. Artist: John TennielCape to Cairo, 1899. Cecil Rhodes asking the German Emperor Wilhelm II for permission for the Cape to Cairo telegraph line to be laid across German territories in Africa
Hooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. Creator: UnknownHooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. Mr. Hooper's cable is composed of the usual copper or other conductor insulated with indiarubber
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory, 1866
The Bay of Bull Arms, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Bonfires Lighted on the Hills to Notify of the Arrival of the Cable Fleet on August 5th, 1858, 1865-66
The Settlement and Church of Hearts Content, Newfoundland, 1866
First Telegraph House at Hearts Content, Newfoundland, 1866, 1866
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857-1858, 1865-66
Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865, 1865-66. Creator: Robert Charles DudleyTelegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865, 1865-66
View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern... 1865-66View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. 1865-66
Valentia, Ireland, from the Harbor, Opposite Knight s-town, at the Period of Laying the Cable of 1857, 1865-66
Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and Boats Laying the Earth Wire, July 21st, 1865, 1865-66
Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865, 1865
In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865, 1865
Coiling the Cable in the After-tank on Board the Great Eastern at Sheerness: Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on May 23rd, 1865, 1865-66
The Cable Passed From the Works into the Hulk (the Old Frigate Iris) Lying in the Thames at Greenwich, 1865-66
The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern, 1865
Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which the Cable Reaches the Shore of Ireland, 1865-66
The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich, 1865-66
September 8th at Hearts Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing and testing the Atlantic Telegraph Cables of 1865 and 1866, 1866
Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865, 1865-66
Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple... 1865-66Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple for the Lost Cable, August 11th, 1865, 1865-66
The Forge on Deck, Night of August 9th: Preparing the Iron Plating for Capstan, 1865-66
The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern, 1865
Getting Out One of the Large Buoys for Launching, August 2nd, 1865, 1865
H. M. S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the LineH.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line, 1865-66
Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern: The Cable Passing Out, 1865-66
The Cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the Point at Which the Shore-end of the Cable was Landed on July 22nd, 1865, 1865
Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern on August 8th, 1865, 1865-66
Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle, 1865-66
View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern, 1865-66
View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. 1865-66
Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc. 1866, 1865-66
News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc. 1866
The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866, 1866
The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1857: H.M.S. Agamemnon... (1901). Creator: UnknownThe Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1857: H.M.S. Agamemnon fitted with the machine for passing the coil overboard, (1901). HMS Agamemnon was the first warship to be built with screw propulsion
The breaking of the Atlantic Cable on board the Great Eastern, August 2, 1865, (1901). The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island in
Telegraphists, Somme, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)
Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Artist: Robert DudleyManufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich
HMS Agamemnon laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 (1866). ArtistHMS Agamemnon laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 (1866). HMS Agamemnon was the first warship to be built with screw propulsion
The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, August 8th, 1866. Artist: Robert DudleyThe laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, August 8th, 1866. The launching of the buoy marking the spot where the cable had been grappled
Taborno Church, Anaga Mountains, Tenerife, 2007
Map of the world showing sailing routes and telegraph cables, c1893. Artist: George Philip & Son LtdMap of the world showing sailing routes and telegraph cables, c1893. From Outlines of British Colonisation, by William Henry Parr Greswell
