The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:L: 75 x 50cm Hampstead'

Hampstead'

1914 Rolls-Royce Alpine Eagle

Lord Francis Conyngham sits on a zebra with a human face (Alderman Wood)

Found in the collection of the Musée Fesch

Passengers boarding the steamer 'Earl Godwin'

The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:L: 75 x 50cm Hampstead'The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, 1865 1866. Cable passing out of one of the tanks on board the 'Great Eastern'. An attempt in 1865 by Brunel's giant steamship, the 'Great Eastern' to lay the cable ended in failure when the cable snapped and the end was lost. The following year the 'Great Eastern' succeeded in retrieving the lost cable and completing it, connecting Valentia in Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Instead of the length