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“Mild page toning showing from age, dust jacket is showing wear from use and age.”
Subject
transatlantic cable
Product Type
book
ISBN
9780802713643
Book Title
Thread Across the Ocean : the Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Item Length
8.5in
Publisher
Walker & Company
Publication Year
2002
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
John Steele Gordon
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Topic
Telecommunications, History
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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The achievement Arthur C. Clarke called "the Victorian equivalent of the Apollo project" Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, they were a fact of life. The United States was remote from Europe, the center of world affairs--communication was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic--and instant contact seemed as unlikely then as walking on the moon did in the 1950s. The Civil War had barely ended, however, when the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic in 1866. John Steele Gordon's book chronicles this extraordinary achievement, one of the greatest engineering feats of the nineteenth century and perhaps of all time. It was an epic struggle, requiring a decade of effort, numerous failed attempts, millions of dollars in capital, a near disaster at sea, the overcoming of seemingly insurmountable technological problems (many of them entirely unforeseen before work commenced), and uncommon physical, financial, and intellectual courage. In the end, their accomplishment literally changed the world. The cable was the brainchild and consuming passion of American businessman Cyrus Field, only thirty-three when he first set out to raise the necessary capital, and it attracted a range of luminaries, among them William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) the greatest applied physicist of the century and scientific adviser to the project, and the great English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose ship, the Great Eastern--five times the size of any other ship afloat at the time--carried the entire cable on the final attempt in 1866. Thirty-four years after the cable was laid, the "American century" began; while the cable did not make this inevitable, it did make it possible. By bringing to life an overlooked story in the annals of technology, John Steele Gordon sheds fascinating new light on the American saga.

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Publisher
Walker & Company
ISBN-10
0802713645
ISBN-13
9780802713643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2203259

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Book Title
Thread Across the Ocean : the Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Author
John Steele Gordon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Telecommunications, History
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tk5611.G67 2002
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-066385
Dewey Decimal
621.383091631
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by fon-barr
    Sep 18, 2016

    Informative

    Nice little account of the pitfalls and challenges of laying the first transatlantic cables for telegraph communication between the continents. The book stays pretty much on point, with only brief mentions of family life but a lot of the political aspects discussed such as the rivalry with Western Union. Since the first cables laid were before the days of radio, there is only so much technology that a book of this nature can include, and the book does a very good job of covering what was there at the time.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: silver-arch-books

  • by snowbe16
    Jan 22, 2021

    Interesting book

    Topic is very interesting to me.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: decluttr_store

  • by 1factoryradio
    Sep 03, 2007

    A Thread Across the Ocean by John Steele Gordon (2002)

    Quick historical read with a culmination of hard to find information. Amazing the difficulties involved in laying a cable across the ocean. These fellows were dedicated!

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