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The Cable: The Wire that Changed the World
Gillian Cookson
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| #2402595 in Books | Tempus | 2007-05-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.00 x.57 x5.00l,.45 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fair description but a little dry|By Brett A. Fishwild|I was a little surprised at the lack of books on this topic, which I think is a rather important technological step for humankind. I think this book gives a fair description of events, it seems unbiased and fairly complete from what I can tell. However, the text is a bit dry and there isn't much prose or literary freedom wi|From Booklist|An import from Britain, Cookson's account of the first transatlantic telegraph is more phlegmatic, and perhaps less dramatized, than historian John Steele Gordon's A Thread across the Ocean (2
The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid —the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. It tells of the dramatic attempts to cross the Atlan-tic during the 1850s and 1860s, from the first failed attempts to the project that finally succeeded. An inconceivably audacious attempt to overcome the forces of nature in the name of human progress and technology, the laying of the cable was to change forever our ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Cable: The Wire that Changed the World | Gillian Cookson. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
