Author: Clayton, Howard,
Title: ATLANTIC BRIDGEHEAD - The Story of Transatlantic Communications.
Description: Garnstone Press, London, 1968, 1st edn., 192pp, 32pp half tone ills., in text map, maps at coloured endpapers, light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the development of cross-Atlantic communications, including the eventually successful laying of a telegraph cable by Brunel's Great Eastern, the seabed telepgraph cable, the Pacific-Atlantic Railway projext of Sandford Fleming, the trans-Atlantic wireless messages and the conquest of the Atlantic by air, lightly rubbed and bumnped at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper:a little rubbed at extrems., light overall soiling, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: transatlantic communications telgraph wireless marconi alcock brown


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