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LAYING OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE: SIR ROBERT PEEL ADDRESSING BYSTANDERS...AT VALENCIA, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing the bystanders after the taking of the shore end of the cable to the Telegraph House at Valencia, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley, showing '...Sir Robert Peel, Chief Secretary to the Government of Ireland, and Lord John Hay...as well as Mr. Glass, the managing director of the Telegraph Construction Company (and manufacturer of the main length of cable)...The end of the cable was taken up by Mr. Glass and handed to Sir Robert, who passed it through a hole...in the building which forms...the station, where it was speedily connected with the batteries in the instrument-room. A signal was then interchanged with the Caroline, proving that the electric communication was perfect. Three cheers for the Queen were called for...and given with Irish warmth. The Knight of Kerry briefly addressed the large concourse of ladies and gentlemen, yeomen and peasantry...[and] expressed his gratification at this auspicious commencement of the work, and called for three cheers for the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, and...for Sir Robert Peel...[who] spoke, with his wonted energy, of the political, social, and commercial benefits which would be secured if the cable should prove successful'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing bystanders...at Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609544917
LAYING OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE: WATCHING THE CAROLINE GOING OUT TO SEA..., 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: watching the Caroline going out to sea with the shore end of the cable, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley. '...the country people...[were] manifesting the keenest interest in the proceedings of the day...On shore, where a trench, 2 ft. deep, had been cut across the narrow beach and up the face of the cliff, to receive the cable, a hundred or more of the country people...were pulling and shouting in their Irish fashion, with the utmost enthusiasm...When the cable had been underran, hauled into the boats again, and the shore end really began to come on land, and was stowed away in gigantic circles at the foot of the cliff, the scene was one of extraordinary animation. Numbers of men were in the water up to their waists...easing the cable over the rocks, while along the steep path up the cliffs was a close row of figures, men and boys, of every rank, from the well-to-do farmer down to the poorest cottier, all pulling at the cable with a will...By twelve o'clock the cable was well up the groove which had been cut in the face of the cliff for its reception; and from this point the work of carrying its massive coils across the meadows to the Telegraph House beyond was soon accomplished'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: watching the Caroline going out to sea..., 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609544893
LAYING OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE: LANDING THE SHORE END OF THE CABLE...VALENCIA, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: landing the shore end of the cable from the Caroline at Foilhommerum, Valencia, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley, showing '...the Caroline, which is in communication with the land by a lengthy floating bridge of boats...precipitous rocks rise nearly 300 ft. from the sea...On the highest pinnacle of the cliff, the country people had planted...improvised flags...the cable was passed literally from hand to hand from ship to shore...The appearance of this long row of boats was very striking, and they varied from the smart cutters of the ships and the trim gig of the coastguard to the ordinary fishing-boat of the coast...Numbers of men were in the water up to their waists or shoulders easing the cable over the rocks, while along the steep path up the cliffs was a close row of figures, men and boys...from the well-to-do farmer down to the poorest cottier, all pulling at the cable with a will...obeying...every signal made by Mr. Glass or Mr. Canning as to when to haul or slack away...By twelve o'clock the cable was well up the groove which had been cut in the face of the cliff...the work of carrying its massive coils across the meadows to the Telegraph House beyond was soon accomplished'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: landing the shore end of the cable...Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609542337
UNDERGROUND WORKS AT THE JUNCTION OF HAMPSTEAD-ROAD, EUSTON-ROAD, AND TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. View showing '...what extensive subterranean works are being constructed in different parts of London, yet which make no show on the surface, and the very existence of which is probably unknown to a very large portion of the inhabitants...daily walking over the site...the lines of a number of different works intersect each other [here]. There is, first, immediately under the surface of the road, a double set of mains and pipes for supplying...water and gas. Beneath these passes, transversely, the iron tube belonging to the Pneumatic Dispatch Company, through which parcels are...conveyed backwards and forwards, and occasionally the mail-bags also, between the General Post Office and this district. Under this tube, is the tunnel of the Metropolitan Railway, through which trains are constantly passing and repassing. The Pneumatic Dispatch Company's tube cuts through the crown of this tunnel. On each side of it run large sewers which form part of the London Main-Drainage works. Beneath all these structures we have shown a longitudinal section of the proposed Hampstead, Midland, North-Western, and Charing-cross Railway - a line which is not yet made'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609539982
OPENING OF THE FIRST RAILWAY IN NEW ZEALAND, AT CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY PROVINCE, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Opening of the first railway in New Zealand, at Christchurch, Canterbury Province, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. R. Kelly. Canterbury was the first province '...to introduce the railway locomotive and the electric telegraph...The event...was one of no ordinary interest to the province, and drew together a large number of the inhabitants. Trains continued to run up and down throughout the day, and afforded gratuitous rides, as well as immense amusement, to crowds of colony-bred young people, to whom a ride in a railway-train was, perhaps, a novelty; as well as to many others, who had not enjoyed that mode of conveyance since they emigrated from the old country...The Lyttelton and Christchurch line is the beginning of a system of railways, to be carried to the north and south of the Canterbury province, which will open up millions of acres of splendid alluvial plain that lie between the coast line and the snow-capped ranges of the Southern Alps. Our Engraving takes in a distant view of those mountains, which, covered with perpetual snow, and as high as those of Switzerland, form the backbone of the Middle Island of New Zealand, traversing almost its whole length, and leaving a space of some fifty miles in width along its eastern shore'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Opening of the first railway in New Zealand, at Christchurch, Canterbury Province, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609483065
STEEL EMBRASURE FOR THE FORTIFICATIONS OF CRONSTADT, MANUFACTURED AT MILLWALL, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Steel embrasure for the fortifications of Cronstadt, manufactured at Millwall, 1864. A '...three-gun wrought-iron shield...[made] by the Millwall Ironworks Company for the Russian Government...The shield is 43 ft. 6 in. long and 10 ft. high...The total weight is about 140 tons, and it is proposed to erect the structure...as a substitute for the stone parapet...which at present stands on the ramparts, while the guns...will be replaced by 600-pounder steel Krupp guns mounted at the embrasures, in which elevated position they will be able to sweep the decks of any opposing force of ironclads. The relative power of resistance to the impact of shot between granite and iron is here distinctly illustrated, the proportions being as nearly as possible inches in the case of the latter to feet in the instance of the former. if this experiment in iron fortification...succeeds, the revolution in the system of the defence of fortresses and forts will have practically begun. Mr. Hughes, of the Millwall Ironworks, is one of the patentees...and Mr. Lancaster, the well-known artillerist, is the other. An important feature...is the facility with which any portion of these iron fortifications can be replaced if injured, or the whole removed if desired'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Steel embrasure for the fortifications of Cronstadt, manufactured at Millwall, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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