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'Telegraphs', 1871.Artist: Coide
'Telegraphs', 1871. A caricature of John Pender (1815-1896), British pioneer of submarine telegraphy. In 1852, Pender became a director of the Atlantic Telegraph Company and in 1864 he formed the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Telcon). The following year he was elected Liberal MP for Totnes, Devon, and co-founded the Anglo-American Telegraph Company to lay the new Atlantic cable. In 1869, his British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company laid an all-undersea cable to India, and in 1872 he formed the Eastern Telegraph Company, of which he was chairman until his death. A print fromVanity Fair, 28 October 1871.
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AR983085
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3283px × 5348px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
Britain
British
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Coide
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COMMUNICATIONS
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James Jacques Tissot
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