Charles Tilston Bright
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Sir Charles Tilston Bright was an English electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858, for which work he was knighted.
Bright, c. 1858
"Submarine Telegraphs", caricature by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1908.
Transatlantic telegraph cables are undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean which were used for telegraph communications.
Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866 at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866
Paper tape 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