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and later merged with The French Transatlantic Cable Company in 1869. The new company set out to recover the lost cable using the CS Albany and CS Medway, working together with The Atlantic Telegraph Company until the two merged in 1873. They then went on to lay two more cables in 1873 and 1874 from
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without competition until 1869, when a French cable was laid. Shortly after this company was established, an agreement was made to coordinate pricing of telegraph services and share revenues, effectively combining the French and Anglo-American interests into one combine. A second French company,
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The next expedition in 1866 was a success, also succeeding in recovering the lost second cable. The service generated revenues of £1000 in its first day of operation. The approximate price to send a telegram was: one word, one mile (1.6 km)= $ 0.0003809.
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The Anglo-American Telegraph Company was founded after the failed attempt of laying a second cable by The Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1865. The new telegraph company took over the assets of the
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On the failure of the expedition to lay the second cable in 1865, a third company was formed to raise the capital for a further attempt, the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. Both the hulks and
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to the Company in 1864, both ships were then extensively modified in 1865 for ferrying the Atlantic cable from the works at Enderby's wharf, in East Greenwich, London, to
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was composed of eighteen members from the United Kingdom, nine from the United States, and three from Canada. The original three projectors were joined by
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers
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Secretariat records (two volumes) of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 1866-1869, are held by
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When a second cable, under Thomson's supervision, was proposed, the Admiralty lent the hulks of
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The cable was coiled down into great cylindrical tanks at the Wharf before being fed into
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The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable 150th Anniversary Celebration 1858-2008
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The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology
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Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company works, at Enderbys Wharf.
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iron sailing steam ship, used to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.
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formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial
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at her Sheerness mooring. A new subsidiary company, the
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India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company
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transferred the 2500 miles (4022 km) of cable to
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compagnie française du télégraphe de Paris à New-York
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The Atlantic Telegraph Company operated the only two
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New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company
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Cyrus Field
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Charles Tilston Bright
New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company
French Atlantic Cable Company
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telegraph
Atlantic Ocean
telecommunications
Cyrus Field
Frederic Newton Gisborne
St. John's, Newfoundland
New York City
Matthew Fontaine Maury
U.S. Navy
John Watkins Brett
Charles Tilston Bright
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London
Liverpool
Manchester

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