The Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, Civil Engineer - With Which is Incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies (Paperback)

Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832 88) was a renowned telegraph engineer, best known for his role in laying the first successful transatlantic cable in 1858, for which he was knighted. Bright later worked on the telegraph networks that would span not only the British Empire but the entire globe. Written by his brother Edward Brailsford Bright (1831 1913) and son Charles (1863 1937), both telegraph engineers who worked alongside him, this two-volume biography, first published in 1898, would do much to cement Bright's reputation as an electrical engineer, providing an insider account of telegraphy's formative years. Volume 1 traces Bright's career as an early employee of the world's first public telegraphy company, the Electric Telegraph Company, and his work on land and submarine cable telegraphy, culminating in the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cables in the mid-nineteenth century.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Technology, Volume 1
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	May 2012
Authors:	Edward Brailsford Bright • Charles Bright
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	536
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-05288-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > General Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN:	1-108-05288-6
Barcode:	9781108052887

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