Cyrus W. Field
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Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
c. 1870
Cyrus Field, c. 1860
Congratulatory telegram to President Buchanan on the completion of the first Trans-Atlantic cable, 1858.
Plaque on a later building on the spot where Cyrus Field lived and worked
Transatlantic telegraph cable
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Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunications cables.
Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866 at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866
Tickertape recording of Queen Victoria's message to James Buchanan
A U.S. postage stamp issued to commemorate the Atlantic cable centenary
The ships used for the first attempt, at Valentia Island.