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 | | Hundreds of engravings and photographs of early British telegraph instruments, with description of their operation and drawings and schematics of their use in their various positions. |
 | | Mullaly, John The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, or, the Ocean Telegraph, being a complete and authentic narrative of the attempt to lay the cable across the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1855, and of the three Atlantic telegraph expeditions of 1857 and 1858 [etc]. |
 | | As special correspondent of the New York Herald newspaper, the author was on board the U.S. frigate niagra during the Atlantic telegraph expeditions of 1857-58, and present at the landing of the cable at Newfoundland on August 5, 1858. |
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