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	Cyrus West Field - LoveToKnow 1911
		CYRUS WEST FIELD (1819-1892), American capitalist, projector of the first Atlantic cable, was born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on the 30th of November 1819.
		Unsuccessful attempts to lay the cable were made in August 1857 and in June 1858, but the complete cable was laid between the 7th of July and the 5th of August 1858; for a time messages were transmitted, but in October the cable became useless, owing to the failure of its electrical insulation.
		Field, however, did not abandon the enterprise, and finally in July 1866, after a futile attempt in the previous year, a cable was laid and brought successfully into use.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cyrus_West_Field (465 words)

	United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Cyrus W. Field
		Field, to be presented to him in the name of the people of the United States of America.
		Field worked his way up from an office boy to a wealthy business man, who was able to retire at age 40.
		Field posed for this portrait in 1858, and in an unusual departure, Brady added two telling props--a length of wire cable and a globe.
	www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /CyrusWField.htm (1092 words)

	American Experience \| The Great Transatlantic Cable \| People & Events \| PBS
		The father of the transatlantic cable, Cyrus Field was a savvy paper merchant who knew nothing about telegraphy but readily understood the commercial possibilities of connecting Europe and America.
		Cyrus Field was one of ten children of the Reverend David Dudley Field, four of whom, like their father, would ultimately find a place in the Dictionary of American Biography.
		Field was hailed as a hero, and among other honors, given a gold medal by Congress.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/cable/peopleevents/p_field.html (889 words)

	Failure Magazine-Archives-History-Cable Ready
		Field was one of the world's first notable entrepreneurs (the term was coined in 1852), pushing, pulling and cajoling his fellow investors to keep moving forward, even in the face of seemingly hopeless circumstances.
		Unfortunately for Field, he was a better entrepreneur than investor and lost nearly all his wealth before his death in 1892, perhaps diminishing his significance in our collective historical memory.
		Field wrote to Samuel F.B. Morse (who produced the first telegraph of practical use) and Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury of the United States Navy (a premier oceanographer), asking about the feasibility of the concept.
	www.failuremag.com /arch_history_cable_ready.html (4188 words)

	'A Thread Across the Ocean': The (Telegraph) Cable Guy MICHAEL PARFIT / NY Times 11aug02
		Cyrus W. Field had retired a year earlier, with a considerable fortune in reserve, and was not really inclined to become involved with such a large undertaking.
		At this time Cyrus Field's eager and romantic vision did not foresee that what lay ahead was thirteen years and over forty trips across the Atlantic, which at that time took a considerable amount of time and was both hazardous and uncomfortable.
		Cyrus Field assembled for this endeavour a team of talented and wealthy individuals from the fields of commerce and science.
	www.mindfully.org /Technology/Telegraph-Cable-FieldNYT11aug02.htm (4036 words)

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		Here Cyrus, Henry, and Mary were born, nigh the roof- trees of Mark Hopkins and Miss Sedgwick, all cradled under the benign inspiration of the great stone face of Monument Mountain, whose mystic moods Hawthorne affectionately tallied up in the little red house on Makheenac.
		Field two with her; during the "lastly" and the "long prayer" [3] he would pray with a hand on each boy's head "to be sure they were there.
		Living side by side in Gramercy Park, David Dudley Field and Cyrus counselled together, and to the unfaltering courage of the elder brother the Atlantic telegraph is greatly indebted, says Dr. Henry M. Field in his romantic chapters on Cyrus Field's twelve years' struggle to bridge the mountains beneath the Atlantic.
	www.berkshireweb.com /themap/stockbridge/history/fields.html (831 words)

	Technology, invention, and innovation collections
		Field recognized the importance of Crisborne's concession in Newfoundland in connection with a proposed Atlantic cable, found a syndicate among his friends, and arranged for the extension of Crisborne's concession to fifty years from 1856.
		In the United States, Field aroused the interest of the board of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company who agreed to take a considerable amount of their payment for the manufacture and laying of a cable in shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
		The United States government support for the cable project came largely from Field's unabating conviction that the cable should be an international project and from the expectation of the British government that the United States would provide a guarantee similar to the one Britain had granted: to link North America and Britain by cable.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8073.htm (1359 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable: Books: John Steele Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He begins with Field gathering wealthy investors the initial funding was equal to 2.5% of the entire federal budget and ends, after 12 years and five distinct failures, with all of them striking it rich.
		The story is one of the courage and persistence of its director-in-charge, Cyrus Field, born in 1819 to a prominent family of Massachusetts.
		Cyrus began the charge to span the ocean when he was only 33 years old, and after several attempts, finally managed to overcome all obstacles 14 years later.
	www.amazon.ca /Thread-Across-Ocean-Heroic-Transatlantic/dp/0060524464 (4064 words)

	Cyrus West Field - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Field, Cyrus West 1819-92, American merchant, promoter of the first Atlantic cable, b.
		Stockbridge, Mass.; brother of David Dudley Field and Stephen J. Field.
		Field was the object of much admiration and praise on both sides of the Atlantic for his persistence in accomplishing what many thought to be an absurd undertaking.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-field-c1y.html (378 words)

	Cyrus West Field Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Cyrus Field was born of Puritan stock in Stockbridge, Mass., on Nov. 30, 1819.
		Thomson's invention of the reflecting galvanometer and the siphon recorder (which recorded telegraphic messages in ink that came from a siphon) assured the operation of the cable once it was laid.
		Field became a stock-market operator and this, coupled with his princely way of life and financial obligations, was his undoing.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/cyrus-west-field (428 words)

	Cyrus W. Field's (1819-92) Atlantic Cable, 1866.
		Later, at home, looking at his world globe, Field realized that to send an almost instant telegraph message by a cable submerged in the Atlantic Ocean between Ireland and Newfoundland and then to New York, would be worthwhile and could be profitable.
		Cyrus Field wrote 14 years later: "God knows that none of us were aware of what we had undertaken to accomplish."
		Betty: Cyrus Field returned to a New York City hard hit by the financial Panic of 1857.
	bfparker.blogster.com /cyrus_w_fields_1819-92_2.html (2588 words)

	Letter written by Cyrus Field
		Cyrus Field is best known for his efforts on laying the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
		This began in 1854, and after several failed attempts, the cable was in place by August of 1858.
		The cable failed within a few weeks and Field was not able to regain connection until 1866.
	www.radiold.com /ephemera/telegrams_pics/cyrus_field_letter.htm (106 words)

	Cyrus Field
		Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was an American financier who, along with Samuel Morse, founded a corporation to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland.
		This telegraph cable, laid in 1858, lasted only for one month.
		Field later headed a consortium which succeeded in laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cy/Cyrus_Field.html (52 words)

	washingtonpost.com: James Richardson, 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When he walked onto a football field, James Richardson -- usually a mass of gangly arms, unruly mouth and disrespecting eyes -- transformed.
		But in years past, the football field has been a green haven impervious to the hard street life that claims a student or two each year.
		For the first time, Cyrus is dreading the football season.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30115-2004May15?language=printer (248 words)

	CYRUS WEST FIELD (1819... - Online Information article about CYRUS WEST FIELD (1819... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf.
		Field and Co., and in 1853 had accumulated $250,000, paid off the debts of the Root See also:
		Field, however, did not abandon the enterprise, and finally in July 1866, after a futile See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FAT_FLA/FIELD_CYRUS_WEST_1819_1892_.html (1101 words)

	Peaks of the Canadian Rockies
		Field, Cyrus West (As a guest of the CPR which was then under construction, Cyrus Field visited the "end of steel" in 1884 which was then in the area of the present town of Field.
		Cyrus Field was a promotor of the first trans-Atlantic cable.) Official name.
		The ascent of Mount Field is one of the simplest in the vicinity, since all but the final 400 vertical metre slog uses well-graded Burgess Pass hiking trail.
	www.peakfinder.com /showpeakbyid.asp?MtnId=1042 (396 words)

	Look Back: Cyrus Field
		Field was a paper merchant - one of ten kids - who saw an opportunity in linking the US and Europe with a cable for telegraph communications.
		The details of how Field discovered the break in his cable halfway to England, through loss of contact with Ireland, seem contrived.
		The fact that this is really what happened and that they salvaged the damaged cable and succeeded in the venture was remarkable to say the least.
	blog.fastcompany.com /archives/2005/04/13/look_back_cyrus_field.html (625 words)

	David Dudley Field and His Family of Haddam and Stockbridge
		Additional Field Family papers are held by the Archives and Special Collections department of the Williams College Library.
		Mentions Jonathan E. Field's election as clerk of Washtenaw Co., Mich., and his appointment as "Clerk of the Supreme Court for the Second Judicial District, and of Register in Chancery for the same District." Sent via Mr.
		Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), New York, to Julius A. Fay, Esq., Elizabethtown [N.J.].
	www.williams.edu /resources/chapin/collect/field.html (2322 words)

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	www.connected-earth.com /content/cyrus_field.html (285 words)

	The Inkwell Gallery, Historical Figures, Miscellaneous, Cyrus W Field
		Field began the difficult project of laying a telegraphic cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1854.
		After many failed attempts, Field arranged in August 1858 for Queen Victoria to send the first transatlantic message to President James Buchanan, an event greeted with great popular acclaim.
		The cable broke after three weeks, but Field persevered over the next several years, finally obtaining additional financing and completing the project in 1866.
	www.inkwellgallery.com /historical/misc/fieldc-1.htm (209 words)

	Cyrus W. Field
		Field soon afterwards formed with a brother-in-law the firm of Cyrus W. Field & Co., and in 1853 had accumulated $250,000, paid off the debts of the Root company (under no legal obligation to do so) and retired from active business, leaving his name and $100,000 with the concern.
		In 1877 Field bought a controlling interest in the New York Elevated Railroad Company, controlling the Third and Ninth Avenue lines, of which he was president in 1877-80.
		He worked with Jay Gould for the completion of the Wabash railway, and at the time of his greatest stock activity bought The New York Evening Express and The Mail and combined them as The Mail and Express, which he controlled for six years.
	www.nndb.com /people/828/000115483 (276 words)

	Cyrus Field - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cyrus Field - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Field, Cyrus West (1819-1892), American merchant, financier, and promoter of the first transatlantic submarine cable.
		Search for books about your topic, "Cyrus Field"
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		But the cable broke after just three weeks, and Field was unable to successfully relay the cable until 1866.
		By now he was the object of much admiration and praise on both sides of the Atlantic for his persistence in accomplishing what many thought to be an absurd undertaking.
		But as has happened with other great inventors, Field was more successful in the imaginative and creative aspects of the venture, and not a very good financial planner.
	www.autographsofamerica.com /b-business-34-Field-Sig.html (288 words)

	Picture History - Cyrus West Field (1819-1892)
		In 1854 Field proposed the construction of a 2,000-mile-long underwater telegraph line between Newfoundland and Ireland.
		In 1858 Field successfully established telegraphic communication between the two, but the line went dead after a month.
		He was the brother of David Dudley Field, the famous lawyer.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/15620/mcms.html (127 words)

	TransAtlantic Telegraph Companies
		Field was not satisfied. Finally, he got hold of an old Quaker friend, who was a very rich man, and he so completely electrified him with the idea of the work that he put three or four hundred thousand dollars into it immediately to lay another cable, and in fourteen days after Mr.
		Field arrived in New York in December 1856, he found the Gulf cable broken, and all the Newfoundland telegraph line in a state of disorder, the superintendent, Simpson, having abandoned the country in despair.
		Cyrus Field, a prominent citizen of the United States, to whose energy and perseverence also the formation of the companies in the United Kingdom, primarily the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and subsequently the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, was at the same time mainly attributable.
	www.alts.net /ns1625/telegraph02.html (7015 words)

	Cyrus
		Miley Cyrus stars in Disney's Hannah Montana, a favorite among "tween" viewers.
		Luther explains from the text it refers to Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, not to a mortal king.
		cyrus • david • daniel • prophecy • destruction
	www.suite101.com /reference/cyrus (593 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Cyrus Field Medal
		History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraphy - Cyrus Field Medal
		Randy Cole shares this photograph of his 103mm bronze replica of the Field medal, shown with the 76mm version for comparison.
		The larger medal is 14mm thick, about twice the thickness of the 76mm medal.
	www.atlantic-cable.com /Field/medal.htm (879 words)

	George Glazer Gallery: Specimen of the Atlantic Cable, c. 1858
		Cyrus W. Field, the promoter of the Atlantic Cable project sold a quantity of unused Atlantic Cable to Tiffany and Co., to be cut into small lengths and sold as souvenirs.
		Cyrus W. Field (shown left), the prime mover of the project, took it on a few years after retiring from a successful business career at the age of 40.
		The massive project of laying miles of undersea cable met with great skepticism from most businessmen, and the practical difficulties resulted in many failed attempts, but eventually Field arranged for the first cable to be sent from Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan in 1858, an event greeted with great popular acclaim.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/com/atcab2.html (446 words)

	No. 772: Perry Collins
		Cyrus Field had tried to lay an Atlantic cable the year before.
		Field and Collins each went back to their projects as the War ended.
		Field struggled with broken trans-Atlantic cables while Collins's men fought endless winter.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi772.htm (456 words)

	Heart's Content, Cable Station
		For Field, the Cabot Strait cable was simply a beginning: from the outset of his involvement in the enterprise he determined to complete a submarine trans-Atlantic cable line, connecting Europe and America via Newfoundland.
		Meanwhile, Cyrus Field busied himself in England with the technical problems of submarine cable design and with financial negotiations to raise the estimated 1.15 million dollars required for the Atlantic cable-laying operation.
		Drawing on the experience of English cable pioneers, it was decided to fabricate the cable using a core conductor of stranded copper, insulated with layers of "gutta percha", a rubber-like extract recently discovered in Malaya.
	www.jproc.ca /ve3fab/hearts_content.html (1101 words)

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