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See also:BRIGHT, See also:SIR See also:CHARLES TILSTON . (1832-1888), See also:English See also:telegraph engineer, who came of an old See also:Yorkshire See also:family, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:June 1832, at See also:Wanstead, See also:Essex. At the See also:age of fifteen he became a clerk under the Electric Telegraph See also:Company. His See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for See also:electrical See also:engineering was soon shown, and his progress was rapid; so that in 1852 he was appointed engineer to the Magnetic Telegraph Company, and in that capacity superintended the laying of lines in various parts of the See also:British Isles, including in 1853 the first See also:cable between See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland, from Portpatrick to See also:Donaghadee. His experiments convinced him of the practicability of an electric submarine cable connexion between Ireland and See also:America; and having in 1855 already discussed the question with See also:Cyrus See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field, who with J. W. Brett controlled the See also:Newfoundland Telegraph Company on the other See also:side of the ocean, Bright organized with them the See also:Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856 for the purpose of carrying out the See also:idea, himself becoming engineer-in-See also:chief. The See also:story of the first Atlantic cable is told elsewhere (see TELEGRAPH), and it must suffice here to say that in 1858, after two disappointments, Bright successfully accomplished what to many had seemed an impossible feat, and within a few days of landing the Irish end of the See also:line at See also:Valentia he was knighted in See also:Dublin. Subsequently Sir Charles Bright supervised the laying of submarine cables in various regions of the See also:world, and took a leading See also:part as See also:pioneer in other developments of the electrical See also:industry. In See also:conjunction with See also:Josiah See also:Latimer See also:Clark, with whom he entered into See also:partnership in 1861, he invented improved methods of insulating submarine cables, and a See also:paper on electrical See also:standards read by them before the British Association in the same See also:year led to the See also:establishment of the British Association See also:committee on that subject, whose See also:work formed the See also:foundations of the See also:system still in use. From 1865 to 1868 he was Liberal M.P. for See also:Greenwich. He died on the 3rd of May 1888, at See also:Abbey See also:Wood, near See also:London.
See See also:Life Story of Sir C. T. Bright, by his son Charles Bright (revised ed. 1908).
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