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Description: | Colour lithograph . Two men, apparently carrying rifles, walk through the snow with a dog, while a third figure, near the entrance to the Telegraph House, waves to them. To the left of the composition, two thick telegraph cables are supported by a telegraph pole and can be traced to where they enter the Telegraph House, through a ground floor window.
The project to lay a telegraph cable across the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, using the ship ‘The Great Eastern’, was completed in 1865. The cable would be used to transmit messages across the Ocean via a telegraph operator, using Morse code. The code was then interpreted as a written message at the other end. The cable itself stretched from western Ireland to eastern Newfoundland in Canada. At each end, where the cable came ashore, it was fed into the instrument room of the Telegraph House, where messages where sent and received. One of the first transmissions to be sent using the new cable was a message from Queen Victoria to US President James Buchanan.
This print was first published as one of several illustrations by Bartlett in the book ‘The Atlantic Telegraph’. It was written by William Howard Russell, a journalist for ‘The Times’ newspaper, and published in 1866. | Subjects: | hill telegraph pole topography tree snow landscape C19th house dog fir man | Temporal: | 1865 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Robert M Bryson (Lithographer) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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