The Cable: The Wire that Changed the World
Author:   Gillian Cookson
Publisher:   The History Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780752423661


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 September 2003
Format:   Hardback
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The Cable: The Wire that Changed the World


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The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid, the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. It tells of the dramatic attempts to cross the Atlantic during the 1850s and 1860s from the first failed attempts to the project that finally succeeded. An inconceivably audacious attempt to overcome the forces of nature in the name of human progress and technology, the laying of the cable was to change forever our means of communication. The speed with which information could now be transmitted was unprecedented and revolutionized the face of news and the global economy.

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Author:   Gillian Cookson
Publisher:   The History Press Ltd
Imprint:   The History Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9780752423661


ISBN 10:   0752423665
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 September 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian specialising in the origins of engineering. She is research fellow at Durham University.

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