The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable Product:Greetings card The cabby's long whip rests

The cabby's long whip rests in the crook of his arm

Botanical study of a specimen of capsicum with long red peppers and one unripe green fruit

the journal manages to score two hits in one cartoon with the lady

Outside his workshop at Brooklands following Bluebird's rebuild

A man and a woman lean against a door frame

The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable Product:Greetings card The cabby's long whip restsThe 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