EditorialThe Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H. M. S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory.
EditorialThe Bay of Bull Arms, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Bonfires Lighted on the Hills to Notify of the Arrival of the Cable Fleet on August 5th, 1858.
EditorialThe Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich.
EditorialDeck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866, 1865?66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 13 7/16 ? 20 7/16 in. (34.2 ? 51.9 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century's great tec...
EditorialMedal Awarded to French Civilian Pigeon-Keepers (?Colombiers civils?), 1870, French, Copper, Diameter (confirmed): 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm), Medals and Plaquettes, Medalist: Eug?ne-Andr? Oudin? (French, 1810?1887), During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?71...
EditorialShirt, 1450?1550, Peru, Chim?, Camelid fiber, cotton, H. 23 1/2 x . 44 1/2 in. (72.7 cm), Textiles-Woven, The production of cloth was highly developed in ancient Peru. Textile garments conveyed important social, political, and religious messages depend...
EditorialTelegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865, 1865?66, Watercolor with touches of gouache, Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/16 in. (14.6 x 23.4 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a t...
EditorialH.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line, 1865?66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 15/16 ? 9 13/16 in. (17.7 ? 25 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of...
EditorialEvangelists Mark and Luke, ca. 1220?30, Made in Limoges, France, French, Gilded copper and glass, Overall (Mark .1): 6 7/8 x 4 7/16 x 1 1/4 in. (17.4 x 11.2 x 3.1 cm), Metalwork-Copper, Intent on their work, Saints Mark and Luke pen extraordinary messa...
EditorialThe Atlantic Telegraph, [1866], Illustrations: color lithography, 16 15/16 x 12 1/16 x 1 3/16 in. (43 x 30.6 x 3 cm), Books, This book documents the great 19th century technological achievement of laying a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic to allo...
EditorialSearching for the Fault after Hauling Back the Cable from the Bottom of the Atlantic, July 31st, 1865, 1865, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 7 in. ? 10 1/4 in. (17.8 ? 26.1 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?19...
EditorialThe Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern, 1865, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 7/16 ? 9 11/16 in. (16.3 ? 24.6 cm), Drawings...
EditorialThe Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866, 1866, Watercolor with touches of gouache, Sheet: 8 1/8 x 12 13/16 in. (20.6 x 32.5 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century's g...
EditorialSplicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865, 1865?66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 7/8 ? 10 7/16 in. (17.5 ? 26.5 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One...
EditorialThe Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 9 3/16 x 15 1/16 in. (23.4 x 38.3 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century's great tech...
EditorialNews Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc., 1866, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 9 5/16 ? 12 5/8 in. (23.7 ? 32 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century...
EditorialThe Cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the Point at Which the Shore-end of the Cable was Landed on July 22nd, 1865, 1865, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 7/16 ? 9 5/16 in. (16.4 ? 23.6 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (B...
EditorialThe Cable Fleet Leaving Ireland, July 1858, 1865?66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (27.6 x 40.3 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826?1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achi...
EditorialThe Great Eastern Under Weigh, July 23rd, 1865: Escort and other Ships, H.M.S. Terrible, H.M.S. Sphinx, The Hawk and Revised: The Caroline, 1865?66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 7 1/4 ? 12 1/2 in. (18.4 ? 31.7 cm), Drawings,...
EditorialView Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., 1865?66, Watercolor with touches of gouache, Sheet: 8 15/16 x 6 1/4 in. (22.7 x 15.9 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826...
EditorialBird Warrior Bottle, 4th?7th century, Peru, Moche, Ceramic, H. 11 1/4 x Diam. 6 in. (28.6 x 15.2 cm), Ceramics-Containers, Stirrup-spout bottles were the privileged ceramic medium used by Moche artists in the expression of complex ideological messages....
EditorialENIGMA, machine that had a rotary encryption mechanism. Used both to encrypt and decrypt messages, in use since 1920. Used by the military forces of Germany since 1930. invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius. ENIGMA model from the year 1943. ...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
EditorialMorse, Samuel (1791-1872). American inventor of the Registrar Electromagnetic Telegraph, as well as two separate devices for sending and receiving messages (1832-1835).
EditorialQuadruplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1874. It could send and receive four telegraph messages simultaneously on a single wire, two signals in each direction. Engraving.
EditorialWest-German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits Austria: During the flight, Chancellor Adenauer hit his head against the ceiling of the cockpit.While the co-pilot tried to staunch the blood, reassuring messages were sent down to the waiting Austrians. ...
EditorialRecord player with hidden two-tube radio receiver for transmission of messages and orders for the Norwegian resistance (receiver closed, for open position see 27-02-01 / 24) World War II.