The story of the telegraph and a history of the great Atlantic cable
Subtitle: a complete record of the inception, progress and final success of that undertaking, a general history of land and oceanic telegraphs, descriptions of telegraphic apparatus, and biographical sketches of the principal persons connected with the great work
By: by Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick.
Contributors: Maverick, Augustus.
Publisher: Rudd & Carleton
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Telegraph -- History; Transatlantic cables
Notes: "Abundantly and beautifully illustrated."

Includes publishers' list.

Includes bibliographical references.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Memorial University of St. John's. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1987.

255, [3], 5 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.