Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Finish:20-pack Round his neck he wears

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

The poem and the cartoon were suggested by Irish legal appointments

Detail from a map showing the Copernican system of planetary orbits (the 'Planisphaerium Copernicanum')

by Charles Blagden

parts of Germany

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Finish:20-pack Round his neck he wearsManufacturing 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.