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Celebrating what would soon become a failed "achievement"...
Celebrating what would soon become a failed "achievement"...
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September 02, 1858
NEW YORK HERALD, Sept. 2, 1858
* Transatlantic telegraph cable
* re. 1st transmission - Atlantic Ocean
Most of the first column is taken up with a nice stack of headlines on the celebration of the completion of the Atlantic Cable, which united Europe with America by a telegraph cable.
Heads include: "THE CABLE CARNIVAL" "Achieved is the Glorious Work" "The Metropolis Overwhelmed with Visitors" "Reunion Of All The Nationalities" "The Cable Layers" and so much more.
The text begins: "The city of New York celebrated yesterday the competition of the great work which has united the two continents of Europe and America in an indissoluble bond..." with much more, taking the entire front page.
But the cable would last by 3 weeks before its failure. It would not be attempted again until 1865 which also failed, then a more successful effort in 1866.
Either a six page edition or lacking the last leaf. In either case a displayable issue.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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