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121 First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Images and Stock Photos

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Illustration showing the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. In 1866, the British ship Great Eastern succeeded in laying the first permanent...

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable

Landing of the end of the first transatlantic telegraph cable on the American coast, on August 1858. Engraving.

Landing of the end of the first transatlantic tele

Lithograph after Robert Dudley from 'The Atlantic Telegraph', a book by W H Russell with 26 illustrations by Dudley, published in 1866. This cable...

Grappling the abandoned cable, 1866.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Agamemnon' laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 . HMS 'Agamemnon' was the first warship to be built with screw propulsion. After being...

HMS 'Agamemnon' Laying The Original Atlantic Telegraph Cable 1857 (1866)

first undersea transatlantic telegraph cable from valentia island in 1857 - first transatlantic telegraph cable stock illustrations

First undersea transatlantic telegraph cable from Valentia Island in 1857

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

�Section of the Great Eastern�, 1853-1858.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

Stern of the �Great Eastern�, c 1858.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

SS ?Great Eastern? leaving Liverpool for New York, 26 March 1867.

Watercolour by Robert Dudley, one of a series of illustrations accompanying 'The Atlantic Telegraph', a book by W H Russell published in 1866. It was...

�Watching Manoeuvers from the Dunes�, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, c 1865.

Lithograph after Robert Dudley from 'The Atlantic Telegraph', a book by W H Russell with 26 illustrations by Dudley, published in 1866. This shows...

On board Brunels Great Eastern, 1866.

Lithograph after Robert Dudley from 'The Atlantic Telegraph', a book by W H Russell with 26 illustrations by Dudley, published in 1866. This shows...

Telegraph wire at the Greenwich works, London, 1866.

Cartoon from Punch at the time of the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable. A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the...

The laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable.

Laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable by the Agamemnon, in 1857. Engraving.

Laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable

Laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable from 1857 to 1863. Engraving.

Laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable

Procession, including a wagon carrying a section of a cable connection, celebrating the inauguration of the first Transatlantic cable in 1858 in New...

Wagon Carrying Cable Connection

The breaking of the Atlantic Cable on board the 'Great Eastern', August 2, 1865', . The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid across the floor...

The Breaking Of The Atlantic Cable On Board The Great Eastern A

Great Eastern. Iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Later converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting...

SS Great Eastern

Sir Charles Tilston Bright, 1832 –1888. British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. From...

Sir Charles Tilston Bright, 1832 –1888

Coloured lithograph. The Great Eastern steam ship was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in collaboration with John Scott Russell and was eventually...

The �Great Eastern�, c 1857.

Suggestion: The Leviathan, what to do with her now you�ve got her off�. Lithograph by E Walker after W Phillips, published by Ackermann, satirising...

Cartoon showing possible uses of the Great Eastern steam ship, 1858.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

�The Great Eastern on the ocean�, c 1859.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

�Great Eastern� steam ship at Portland, c 1859.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

�The Great Eastern rounding the point opposite Blackwall�, London, c 1859.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

Family saloon cabin in the �Great Eastern� steam ship, c 1859.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

The Grand Saloon of the �Great Eastern� steam ship, c 1859.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

Launch of the �Great Eastern� steam ship, 1858.

Coloured lithograph of the �Great Eastern� under construction at the shipyard in Millwall on the River Thames.The Great Eastern steam ship was...

The �Great Eastern� being built, Millwall, London, 1830s.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

The Great Eastern on the stocks, Millwall, London, 1853-1858.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

�The Great Eastern on the stocks�, Millwall, London, 1853-1858.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

�The Great Eastern on the stocks�, stern view of the steam ship, 1853-1858.

Johnson and Phillips produced electric cables and transformers. Firms like them had grown from the huge manufacturing industries surrounding the...

Man with completed drum of cable after winding, Greenwich, 1958.

Johnson and Phillips produced electric cables and transformers. Firms like them had grown from the huge manufacturing industries surrounding the...

Two workers inspect giant cable laying machine, Greenwich , 1958.

Johnson and Phillips produced electric cables and transformers. Firms like them had grown from the huge manufacturing industries surrounding the...

Core winding a transformer, Greenwich, 1958.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cable laying machinery on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Built of iron, she was 692...

Cannon on the deck of the SS �Great Eastern�, c 1867.

One of six watercolours by Robert Dudley of the Atlantic telegraph cable laying expedition. In 1866 Isambard Kingdom Brunel�s �Great Eastern� became...

Workmen laying telegraph cable, 1866.

Watercolour by Robert Dudley showing two men joining cables being watched by four others. One of six watercolours of the Atlantic telegraph cable...

?Making joint to Shore End, 13 July 1866.

Watercolour painting by Robert Dudley showing Samuel Canning, chief engineer, being held aloft in a chair by the crowd at Heart�s Content,...

Canning being cheered by crowds, Newfoundland, Canada, 1866.

One of six watercolours of the Atlantic telegraph cable laying expedition of 1866, painted by Robert Dudley showing the telegraph station at Heart�s...

Telegraph station at Heart�s Content, Canada, 1866.

Illustration taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The �Great Eastern�, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott...

William Harrison, first captain of �Great Eastern�,c 1859.

Portrait of naval engineer John Scott Russell taken from �Pictorial history of the Great Eastern steam-ship� . The Great Eastern was built by the...

John Scott Russell, builder of the Great Eastern, c 1859.

Photogravure after a photograph of Lord Kelvin , c 1900. Kelvin was born William Thomson and was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge. He was Professor...

Lord Kelvin, Scottish engineer, mathematician and physicist, c 1900.

When the �Great Eastern� was launched in 1858 she was the largest ship in the world. It was also the final and most ambitious project of Isambard...

1:12 model of the paddle wheel engines of the �Great Eastern� steamship, 1858.

Etching of Lord Kelvin . Kelvin was born William Thomson and was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the...

Lord Kelvin, Scottish engineer, mathematician and physicist, c 1900.

Lithograph by T G Dutton after a painting by Oswald Walters Brierly of 1852, showing HMS �Agamemnon� getting under way from Spithead, near...

HMS �Agamemnon, 91 guns�, 1853.

This glazed case contains transatlantic cables that were laid in the late 1850s and 1860s. The three pieces of cables were used in three separate...

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, was Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University, and was well known for his work in many branches of...

Thomsons mirror galvanometer, 1858.

Engraving from the Illustrated London News showing sailors preparing for a final attempt to grapple a lost cable during the unsuccessful 1865...

Cable laying at sea, Atlantic Ocean, 1865.

Engraving from the Illustrated London News showing operators receiving messages from Brunel�s �Great Eastern� at the telegraph house at Foillhummerum...

Receiving telegraph messages, 1865.

This cable �tree� is made up of specimens from the first Atlantic submarine cable. The first complete trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was laid by the...

Specimens of the first Atlantic submarine cable, 1858.

This cable �tree� is made up of specimens from the first Atlantic submarine cable. The first complete trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was laid by the...

Specimens of the first Atlantic submarine cable, 1858.

This glazed frame, encircled by a short length of cable, contains an illuminated manuscript copy of the first message sent using the Atlantic...

The first message transmitted through the original Atlantic cable, 1858.