BIB_ID
293284
Accession number
MA 140.55
Display Date
1866 July 13-27.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 41.7 cm
Notes
Includes data entered daily in the following columns: wind and weather, course, nautical miles of cable paid out, latitude, longitude, distance from office in Valentia, distance from electric office in Hearts-Content [Newfoundland], depth of water, and remarks.
Part of a large collection of letters to Cyrus Field and documents related to the transatlantic telegraph cable. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 140 for more information.
Signed by James Anderson and Henry A. Moriarty.
Part of a large collection of letters to Cyrus Field and documents related to the transatlantic telegraph cable. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 140 for more information.
Signed by James Anderson and Henry A. Moriarty.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
A chart of data related to the laying of the transatlantic cable in July 1866.
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