The Computing Universe by Tony Hey & Gyuri Pápay & Tony Hey & Gyuri Pápay

Author:Tony Hey & Gyuri Pápay & Tony Hey & Gyuri Pápay [Hey and Pápay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

B.10.4. Entrepreneur William Cooke (1806–79) and physicist Charles Wheatstone (1802–75) pioneered the telegraph in the United Kingdom. After a slow start, undersea cables were laid connecting the whole of the British Empire.

B.10.5. Photograph of the statue of Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), pioneer of the telegraph and inventor of Morse code, in New York’s Central Park. The statue was dedicated in 1871.

B.10.6. Cyrus Field (1819–92) began work at age fifteen as an office boy for A. T. Stewart & Co., New York City’s first department store. By the age of twenty, he was a partner in a paper manufacturing company, and at thirty-three was able to retire as a wealthy man. In 1854, Field became enthusiastic about the possibility of laying an undersea transatlantic telegraph cable from Newfoundland to Ireland. After several failed attempts, in August 1858 Field arranged for Queen Victoria to send the first transatlantic message to President James Buchanan, and there were great celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic. The cable and the project were not successfully completed until 1866. In the portrait, Field is seen touching a globe and holding a length of cable wire.

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