History of the Atlantic telegraph : to the return of the expedition of 1865 / by Henry M. Field.
- Henry Martyn Field
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the Atlantic telegraph : to the return of the expedition of 1865 / by Henry M. Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![ships, so that no opportunity may be lost in forward- ing intelligence in advance of the ordinary channels of communication. But the charter of the New-York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company, which was now to be obtained, began by declaring, in its very first sen- tence : Whereas, it is deemed advisable, to establish a line of telegraphic communication between America and Europe, by way of Newfoundland. Not a word is said of fast ships, of communications in less than sis days, but every thing points to a line across the ocean. Thus one section gives authority to establish a subma- rine telegraph across the ocean, from Newfoundland to Ireland; another section prohibits any other company or person from touching the coast of Newfoundland or its dependencies [which includes Labrador] with a tele- graphic cable or wire, from any point whatever, for fifty years; and a third section grants the Company fifty square miles of land upon the completion of the submarine line across the Atlantic. In other respects the charter was equally liberal. It incorporated the associates for fifty years, established perfect equality in respect to corporators and officers, between citizens of the United States and British sub- jects, and allowed the meetings of the stockholders and directors to be held in New-York, in Newfoundland, or in London.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21025010_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
