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The Route of the Atlantic Telegraph, The Great Eastern Section of the bed of the Atlantic (Print)
The Great Eastern In Portland Harbour (Print)
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Inboard profile plan
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Exterior view of Telegraph House in 1857-1858 (Print)
Laying the electric cable between Newfoundland and Cape Breton. Arrival of the war steamer Argus after breaking the cable. (see print Illustrated London News 20 Oct 1855, p.480 (Cables 25) (Drawing)
The Great Eastern named: The Leviathan (Print)
Interior of one of the tanks on board the Great Eastern... Cable passing out (Print)
Steamship Great Eastern (Print)
The Great Eastern under weigh July 23rd (escort and other ships introduced being the Terrible, the Sphinx the Hawk & the Caroline) (Print)
In the bows (of the Great Eastern) August 2nd the cable broken and lost - preparing to grapple (Print)
The Great Eastern Steam Ship. 22500 Tons, Constructed for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company under the direction of I.K. Brunel (Print)
View (looking aft) from the port paddle box of Great Eastern - showing the trough for cable &c (Print)
The cliffs Foilhummerum Bay, point of the landing of the shore end of Cable July 22nd (Print)
The Eighth Wonder of the World. The Atlantic Cable (Print)
The Great Eastern... constructed under the direction of I. K. Brunel (Print)
Great Eastern? on the stocks (Print)
The Great Eastern (Print)
The Great Eastern named Leviathan (Print)
The Leviathan or Great Eastern Steam Ship Designed by I. K. Brunel (starboard side view and section) (Print)
Leviathan Great Eastern (Print)
The Great Eastern on her first trial trip. Left her moorings September 8, 1859. (Also) Sectional view of the Great Eastern... engineer I. K. Brunel (Print)
Great Eastern, Medway and Albany dragging for and heaving up the Transatlantic cable of 1865 (Print)
The Great Eastern leaving Sheerness (Drawing)
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