Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship, used to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.
Industry
Telegraphy
Founded
1856
Founders
Cyrus Field, John Watkins Brett, Charles Tilston Bright
Fate
1870 merged with New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company and French Atlantic Cable Company
Subsidiaries
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company
The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856[1] to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link.
^The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable 150th Anniversary Celebration 1858-2008 by Nigel Linge, University of Salford, 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2013. Archived 21 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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