Telegraph Chart of America & Europe – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Telegraph Chart of America & Europe brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Telegraph Chart of America & Europe
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Rather than a city view, this chart maps the two continents together, tracing the lines that linked North America and Europe by wire. Charts like this rose in popularity in the mid-1800s, when the electric telegraph was spreading across the United States and a cable under the Atlantic was being attempted. The first successful transatlantic cable came in 1866, after earlier attempts failed, and it cut the time for messages between the two sides from weeks by ship to minutes. Maps of this kind show how quickly that new network was reshaping the sense of distance between cities on either shore.
| Original scan | 7,119 × 5,646 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1858a First Atlantic Telegraph |
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