The great war correspondent William Howard Russell sailed aboard the Great Eastern in 1865 to record the attempt to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic. He recounts the history of earlier failed cables, the ship and her crew, and day by day the paying-out, the faults that baffled the electricians, and the struggle to recover a lost line from deep water.
A vivid account of a Victorian engineering epic, for readers of technology and maritime history. Download the free EPUB.