cable-builders

Updated: July 11, 2025

It seemed entirely possible that the messages would move so slowly that the operation of the cable, once it was laid, would not pay. Faraday failed to give any definite information on the subject, but Professor William Thomson worked out the law of retardation accurately and furnished to the cable-builders the accurate information which was required.

Walter Kellogg Towers - Masters of Space: Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty