A Thread Across the Ocean
Subtitle: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780802713643
Subjects: Telegraph; United States - 19th Century; Technology & Industrial Arts; History; United States; History: World; Transatlantic cables; Telecommunications; Modern - 19th Century; Technology / History; Great Britain; Atlantic; Cables, Submarine
First sentence: THOMAS NIGHTINGALE HAD PROSPERED in South Carolina almost from the day he had arrived as a young man from his native Yorkshire in the 1720s.