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Atlantic cable Atlantic Telegraph Company August battery Birmingham wire gauge Brest buoy C. F. Varley cable on board Captain Halpin caused cells cent Chatterton's compound coils Commenced testing compound Conductor Gutta percha Construction and Maintenance Contentina Contractor copper resistance copper wire core after 24 Cyrus Cyrus Field Daniel Gooch diameter Eastern electrical electrician electrification Elliot Engineers expedition experiments fathoms fault galvanometer Glass Gooch grapnel grappling Greenwich Gutta Percha Company gutta percha covered Gutta percha Inductive hemp Henley Hooper's hours at 75 insulation iron wires joints July laying length of cable Maintenance Company Malta manufacture Means per knot Medway megohms per knot messages Messrs microfarads miles minutes mirror galvanometer Neptune Newall ohms passed percha Inductive capacity pressure repairs rope sent ship shore end signals splice strand submarine cables submarine telegraphy tank Telegraph Construction temperature Valentia Varley weather William Cory WILLOUGHBY SMITH
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Page 18 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 370 - The Queen congratulates the President on the successful completion of an undertaking which she hopes may serve as an additional bond of union between the United States and England.
Page 3 - ... in a wooden mould, where it was kept under pressure until the gutta percha was quite hard. The joint thus made resembled, when removed from the mould, a magnified cigar, some two inches in diameter and nine in length ; it tapered at either end to the size of the covered wire over which it lapped. Each coil of wire was immersed in water as soon as covered, and, if thought sufficiently insulated, passed. The electrical arrangements were not elaborate, and although the battery generally used looked...
Page 175 - Our shore-end has just been laid, and a most perfect cable, under God's blessing, has completed telegraphic communication between England and the continent of America.
Page 371 - The President of the United States acknowledges with profound gratification the receipt of Her Majesty's despatch, and cordially reciprocates the hope that the cable that now unites the eastern and western hemispheres may serve to strengthen and perpetuate peace and amity between the Government of England and the Republic of the United States.
Page 255 - They thought in short that it were better to " bear the ills they had than fly to others that they knew not of.
Page 327 - Do what you can, being what you are; shine like a glow-worm, if you cannot as a star ; work like a pulley, if you cannot as a crane ; be a wheel-greaser, if you cannot drive a train...
Page 362 - Let dogs delight To bark and bite, For 'tis their nature to...
Page 356 - Then love your neighbour as yourself As the world you go travelling through ; And never sit down with a tear or a frown, But paddle your own canoe.
Page 350 - He who steals my purse, steals trash. ******** But he who filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.