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LIFE.
'Biptiiafnm.0 to 109 fatkA 1091*1093 1093 tw4/more.
Fig. 205.—The Transatlantic Cables.
these words of peace and scrawling some indistinct syllables, the Transatlantic Cable, as if exhausted by its first effort, and, as it were, ceasing to
live, refused to respond to the learned electricians who were soliciting it
on both shores of the ocean; silence had resumed its empire across the
broad tract of water. But the persevering Anglo-Saxons did not succumb to the blow of this defeat: they again manufactured thousands of
miles of fresh wire, and commissioned their engineers* and their most skillful mariners to lay it down in the bed of the ocean. Then, with an anxiety as "great as that experienced on the eve of a decisive battle, they witnessed the departure of their finest ship, unrolling as it went the cable
which was to unite them to their American brethren. Fresh misfortunes
followed: the wire broke in the open sea. No matter; they laid down
a tjhird, and the mighty Great Eastern made her voyage across the Atlantic without ceasing for one instant to keep up a communication with
the coast of Ireland, just as if she had left in her wake a long electric furrow. At the present time two electric telegraphs connect the two oppo-.
site continents, and efforts are being made to lay down others—between
Lisbon and Rio Janeiro, and between Brest and New York. Lines, however, of no very great length, especially that from France to Algeria, by
way of the Balearic Islands, have not been successfully established in a
permanent way, the cables having often been broken; the cables also in
the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean have been
frequently injured. A total length of 12,400 miles of telegraphic wires
has been laid down in the bed of the sea between various parts of the
world, its islands and peninsulas; but there does not at present exist any
one continuous line which belts round the whole circumference of the
planet passing across the continental masses and the depths of the ocean.
The longest line, that between California and Calcutta, passing through
New York, London, Vienna, Constantinople, and Bagdad, is not less than
12,400 miles in length.
The great undertakings which have been already accomplished on the
| Title | The ocean, atmosphere, and life |
| Creator | Reclus, Elisée |
| Publisher | Harper |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1873 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000563 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 506 LIFE. 'Biptiiafnm.0 to 109 fatkA 1091*1093 1093 tw4/more. Fig. 205.—The Transatlantic Cables. these words of peace and scrawling some indistinct syllables, the Transatlantic Cable, as if exhausted by its first effort, and, as it were, ceasing to live, refused to respond to the learned electricians who were soliciting it on both shores of the ocean; silence had resumed its empire across the broad tract of water. But the persevering Anglo-Saxons did not succumb to the blow of this defeat: they again manufactured thousands of miles of fresh wire, and commissioned their engineers* and their most skillful mariners to lay it down in the bed of the ocean. Then, with an anxiety as "great as that experienced on the eve of a decisive battle, they witnessed the departure of their finest ship, unrolling as it went the cable which was to unite them to their American brethren. Fresh misfortunes followed: the wire broke in the open sea. No matter; they laid down a tjhird, and the mighty Great Eastern made her voyage across the Atlantic without ceasing for one instant to keep up a communication with the coast of Ireland, just as if she had left in her wake a long electric furrow. At the present time two electric telegraphs connect the two oppo-. site continents, and efforts are being made to lay down others—between Lisbon and Rio Janeiro, and between Brest and New York. Lines, however, of no very great length, especially that from France to Algeria, by way of the Balearic Islands, have not been successfully established in a permanent way, the cables having often been broken; the cables also in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean have been frequently injured. A total length of 12,400 miles of telegraphic wires has been laid down in the bed of the sea between various parts of the world, its islands and peninsulas; but there does not at present exist any one continuous line which belts round the whole circumference of the planet passing across the continental masses and the depths of the ocean. The longest line, that between California and Calcutta, passing through New York, London, Vienna, Constantinople, and Bagdad, is not less than 12,400 miles in length. The great undertakings which have been already accomplished on the |
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