Cyrus Field's Big Dream: The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
- ISBN-10
- 1629795569
- ISBN-13
- 9781629795560
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Calkins Creek
- Author
- Mary Morton Cowan
Description
Award-winning author Cowan explores the extraordinary achievement of American financier Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents. Illustrations.
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