ARCHIVIST'S CORNER LAYING THE 1858 TRANSATLANTIC CABLE

摘要

One of the largest collections (in format) in the IET Archives is an elephant folder of drawings by the artist EW Cooke detailing the first transatlantic cable expedition across the Atlantic ocean in 1858. This project was both the culmination of years of effort and the first tentative step to a practical, permament communications link between Britain and the US.rnIt all started in the 1840s and 50s with the ambitious vision of a few US and British engineers and businessmen, including Samuel Morse and Charles Tilston Bright.