The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm 23rd January 1861

23rd January 1861

or the Corporation conglomorated

whilst Britannia urges him to look up from his book at the fighting in the Bulgaria

A group of suffragettes holding placards publicising a public meeting to be held on Ealing Common on 1 June

but Tyndall's head and shoulders are framed by a dark cushion

The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm 23rd January 1861The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable, 1866, (c1920). 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 of a sea voyage, communication time between the two sides