Voice Across The Sea (Revised Edition)
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. illustrated endpapers. 228 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos and reproductions. The Revised Edition, updated from the original 1958 printing, with a Preface to the Second Edition dated 1974. A complete, though non-technical, account of the electrical adventure that profoundly changed the pattern of human life----the laying and development of the first transatlantic cable. The Victorian equivalent of Apollo Project, it was well documented at the time, linked with their saga of the famous Great Eastern, the only ship in the world that could carry enough cable to reach from America to Europe. Fine / fine. Item #E33838
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