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 Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship, used to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable. | |
| Industry | Telegraphy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1856 |
| Founders | Cyrus Field, John Watkins Brett, Charles Tilston Bright |
| Fate | 1870 merged with New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company and French Atlantic Cable Company |
| Subsidiaries | Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company |
The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856[1] to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link.
- ^ The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable 150th Anniversary Celebration 1858-2008 by Nigel Linge, University of Salford, 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2013. Archived 21 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine