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30th April 1997

The man is wearing a frock coat and cravat

parts of Germany

Round his neck he wears the coat of arms of the City of London

Fish motif

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Finish:20-pack 30th April 1997Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich. The cable, connecting Valentia island, off the Irish coast, and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, was successfully laid in the summer of 1866 by Brunel's steamship, the 'Great Eastern'. From The Atlantic Telegraph by William Howard Russell, published 1866.

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