Annals of Cleveland

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141

Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 June 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

141 - L June 16; ed: 2/1 - Secretary Seward told the Senate that the
line projected by Collins, from the Pacific telegraph to the Amoor River,
with its anticipated extension by the Russian government to Irkutsk, º
would be the one link now wanted to supply direct and unbroken telegraph
communication from Cape Race in Newfoundland, on the Eastern coast of
America, across the Eastern and Western continents and the Pacific Ocean,
to Cape Clear in Ireland, the westermost projection of Europe. -
A submarine cable laid between Cape Clear and Cape Race will complete
a telegraphic circuit around the world between the parallels of 42 degrees
and 65 degrees north latitude. (11)

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Amoor river; *Cables; Cape Clear, Ireland; Cape Race, Newfoundland; Collins (Pacific Cable); Irkutsk, Siberia; Russia; Seward, William H.; U. S. Senate

142

Cleveland Morning Leader, 15 November 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

142 - L Nov. 15; ed: 2/3 - An interesting report is given of the progress
thus far made in the manufacture of the Atlantic cable and the arrange- .
ments necessary to insure success in the attempt to connect Europe and
America by telegraph. Eight hundred miles of the copper conductor with
four layers of gutta percha have been completed. Six hundred tons of
nomogeneous iron and large stocks of manilla yarn, used to wrap iron wire,
is to be used in its construction.
"The projectors of this great enterprise are confident, that so far as
human power can determine, it will be entirely successful, and there are
none, either in this country, or in Europe, who will not hope that this
expectation be realized." - (6)

Index terms:

Atlantic cable; Europe