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" ... the bottom of the deep sea is concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there especially for... "
Mechanics' Magazine - Page 277
1854
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

1855 - 424 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau, which seems to have been placed therq especially for the purpose of holding the wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them...
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Bulletin of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, Volumes 1-2

American Geographical and Statistical Society - 1852 - 610 pages
...bottom for it. From Newfoundland to Ireland the distance between the nearest points is about 1,000 mHcs, and the bottom of the sea between the two places is a plateau which scorns to have been placed there especially for the purpose of holding the wires of a submarine telegraph,...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 61

Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1854 - 664 pages
...concerned. " From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest point is about 1,600 miles;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them » Prom Cape Preels, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 miles; from Cape Charle»...
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Shaffner's Telegraph Companion, Volumes 1-2

1854 - 750 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once...
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The Museum of Science and Art, Volume 3

Dionysius Lardner - 1854 - 246 pages
...river St. Lawrence, and the west coast of Ireland, the bottom consists of a plateau, which, as he says, "seems to have been placed there especially for the...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep, that the wires but once...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

1855 - 424 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;• and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once...
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Annual of scientific discovery. 1855

1855 - 424 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, but once...
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The Electric Telegraph Popularised

Dionysius Lardner - 1855 - 318 pages
...St. Lawrence, and the west coast of Ireland, the bottom consists of a plateau, which, as he says, " seems to have been placed there especially for the...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow; yet it is so deep, that the wires but once...
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Volume 4

Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...the secretary of the navy at Washington, that the bottom of the sea between Ireland and Newfoundland 'is a plateau, which seems to have been placed there...wires of a submarine telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires, when...
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The Story of the Telegraph, and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable: A ...

Charles Frederick Briggs, Augustus Maverick - 1858 - 452 pages
...concerned. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the distance between the nearest points is about 1,600 miles ;* and the bottom of the sea between the two places is...wires of a Submarine Telegraph, and of keeping them out of harm's way. It is neither too deep nor too shallow ; yet it is so deep that the wires but once...
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