Transatlantic cable colour lithographic prints by Day & Son Limited
Reference
UK0108 SC MSS 012
Date
1858, 1865
Scope and Content
Album of mounted coloured prints entitled 'Laying of the first Transatlantic cable' with some pictures drawn aboard 'Great Eastern' in 1865. Pictures show cable at the works at Greenwich, loading the cable onto the Great Eastern, paying out machinery, the landing point, Telegraph House, Trinty Bay, Newfoundland, splicing the cable, searching for faults after retrieving cable from sea bed, grappling to retrieve cable.
