retroelectro
1858 The trans-Atlantic cable was successfully laid, and the first messages were exchanged across the Atlantic, failing three weeks later.
7. Evidence of Wildman
Sept 22-29, 1858 Whitehouse gives five presentations at the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Whitehouse, 15 December 1859 https://atlantic-cable.com/ Books/1861JCR/Whitehouse/ index.htm#gsc.tab=0 8. Reply to the Statement of the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company by Whitehouse https://atlantic-cable.com/ Books/Whitehouse/index. htm#gsc.tab=0 9. ‘The First Trans-Atlantic Cable’ by Becky Little https://www.history.com/news/ first-trans-Atlantic-telegraph- cable 10. ‘Experimental Observations on Submarine Electric Cables’ by Whitehouse in 1855 https://atlantic-cable.com/ Books/Whitehouse/BA1855/ index.htm#gsc.tab=0 11. ‘Report of the Joint Committee Appointed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to Inquire into the Construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables’ by the Great Britain Privy Council Committee for Trade (1861)
Charles Bright is knighted.
Whitehouse is fired.
November 1858
Whitehouse was dismissed from the project due to the
December 1859
Gave evidence before a committee of the House of Lords investigating the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
cable’s failure due to his high-voltage methods.
1861
Whitehouse is a paid consultant for a telegraph cable going for Malta to Alexandria.
Another attempt was made to lay a trans- Atlantic cable, but the cable broke and fell into the ocean. 1865
1866
The second trans- Atlantic cable was successfully laid using the ‘Great Eastern’ under Thomson’s guidance. William Thomson is knighted, becoming Lord Kelvin.
https://www.google.com/ books/edition/Report_of_ the_Joint_Committee_ hl=en&gbpv=0
1870
Whitehouse dies.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
we get technical
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