Map of the submarine telegraph between America & Europe : with its various communications on the two continents.
Title:
Map of the submarine telegraph between America & Europe : with its various communications on the two continents.
Author:
Korff Brothers, publisher, lithographer.
Publication Information:
New York : Korff Brothers, practical lithographers, 54 William St. : [dist. by] Hunter & Co., map & book publishers, sole agents, 85 Nassau St., [1857]
©1857
Physical Description:
1 map : black and white, partly shaded blue ; 23 x 48 cm
Summary:
Depicts the route of the undersea telegraph cable across the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland, the principal steamship routes in the North Atlantic, railroad lines in North America and Europe, an inset map of the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland, a profile of the bottom of the North Atlantic as sounded by the American steamer Arctic in 1856, and an actual-size depiction of the undersea cable.
General Note:
Publisher, distributor, and copyright data in bottom margin of map ; the United Kingdom, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland shaded blue.
Language:
English
Format :
Map