SS Great Eastern
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SS Great Eastern was an iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London, England. Powered by both si
Great Eastern at Heart's Content after laying the first lasting transatlantic cable, July 1866
The famous photograph by Robert Howlett of Brunel before the ship's launching chains
Construction of Great Eastern, August 18, 1855
Great Eastern two months before launch, November 1857.
Transatlantic telegraph cables are undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean which were used for telegraph communications.
SS Great Eastern
…largely unprofitable by her high initial and operating costs. Within a few years she was repurposed to lay underwater cable, laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866. Finishing her life as a floating music hall and advertising hoarding (for the department store Lewis's) in Liverpool, she was broken up on…
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