Atlantic Telegraph Company
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The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link.
Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship, used to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company works, at Enderbys Wharf.
Wildman Whitehouse
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Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse was an English surgeon by profession and an electrical experimenter by avocation. He was recruited by entrepreneur Cyrus West Field as Chief Electrician to work on the
Atlantic Telegraph Company
…composed of eighteen members from the United Kingdom, nine from the United States, and three from Canada. The original three projectors were joined by E.O.W. Whitehouse, who oversaw the manufacturing of the cables as chief electrician. Curtis M. Lampson served as vice-chairman for over a decade. The board recruited the…
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