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English: Identifier: harpersweeklyv9bonn (find matches) Title: Harper's weekly Year: 1857 (1850s) Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937 Subjects: Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: calicok; the figures, in marking linen, will first, as..1c tcllsi us, a).pear of a green, then of a ycl- thrown into a boiler filled with the liquor of anoth- went this double process were ven- greatly esteem-ed and very costly, each pound weight of the col- THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPHCABLE. We give on this and the next page two illustn the Medway, and receiving the Atlantic TelegrarCable from one of the bulks employed to bringfrom the manufacturers yard at East Greenwichwing the manni c—a coil 58 feet ii The work of shipping the cable was begun on XI.in-day, the Hth oil., and will continue without ly on board tho great steamship. The total quan-tity of rope required to connect Valentin with HullsBay, Newfoundland, allowing for the slack which inilea. With this length a libera! margin is givenof nearly (Jul) statute miles of rope for slack caused in the deepest water. Over one part of the ithe d. pth is ms ^real a. from ..XCj f> jr.ijn lathor nearly three statute milec—a depth, how( Text Appearing After Image: THE GREAT EASTERN IN THE MEDWAY RECEIVING THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE,roof. It is disposed, therefore, in thre : i- <■ crude iufnriii;iii..)i i»n the Mil.jeet . ■■ hell. Ii.il.Ih hj. rlire.fi.,II \ whelk (Bucrinum), are as follows- when the shel haa been lightly broke will very speedily die. with a camel hair penc I—It forma the dye. Thi as was needed for the dye-works : and < is abandoned or lost, rather because of araw material than from any tyraunicion in the manufacture. If wo wantedthe making of this purple nowadays niscientific man tells us that the host and c Tyrian purple, even with tho knowledge of the factbefore us, that wo could artificially cultivate the way as we can multiply our supplies of oysters or ■ fnruard hud e-. (Vein I h. v, n iu the cue/ravine; ,m ourt j-n.ni.m .,f the cable. Iumious additional ». ■i-hl v.l, J of tho cable ugain-t the .- inliningthe first laid, and ■Ahu kneu it-in tnir v. .ul.ii its breaking strain is 7) tons against 3* to Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.