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London, c. 1855. Steel engraving, 26 x 32 cms, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas with vignettes of Sebastapol, Varna, Odessa, Sinope, Constantinople and Silistra drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles. The map has been updated to show the 300 mile submarine telegraph cable between Varna and Balaclava, laid by Robert Stirling Newall during the Crimean War, which was operational from April 1855. It was the longest submarine cable of its day, cut two days from the time it took to send and receive messages (the typical journey time across the Black Sea by ship) and once linked with the rest of the telegraph system allowed, for the first time (and for good or ill), near instantaneous communciation between Paris and London and the Allied commanders in the field. Map
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9490
- Title
- Black Sea
- Author
- Tallis, John:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c. 1855
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russia;
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