From our exhibition: James Hook, Word from the missing (1877)
The trans-Atlantic telegraph changed the world in the nineteenth century. But what do we mean when we say this? Our Scrambled Messages project wants to go beyond the obvious answers and think about how it entered the public imagination. Our project marks the 150th anniversary of the successful laying of the cable. We are looking at the way in which popular understandings of the trans-Atlantic submarine telegraph fed the Victorian imagination and made certain themes, metaphors and paradigms urgent and releva
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