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2002 Walker & Company hardcover, John Steele Gordon (An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power). In a world in which news and information flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. But they were a fact of life in the 19th century. One of those adept, impressively learned, sometimes impractical 19-century woodshed thinkers and tinkers, Cyrus Field, knew only a little of the hard science behind stringing a submarine telegraph cable that would link the financial markets of London and New York. Field was not the first to conceive such a venture, but he was the first to act on the idea, writing to Samuel Morse and finding another ally in the naval surveyor and architect Matthew Fontaine Maury. With the limited sum of $1.5 million, Field and company eventually managed to make the transatlantic cable a reality, and even if its early iterations turned out to be duds, their work did in fact revolutionize communications and "laid down the foundations of what would become...a global village." - Amazon

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  • PublisherWalker & Company
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0802713645
  • ISBN 13 9780802713643
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages240
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