American Experience Season 17 Episode 7
Overview:
Cyrus Field's struggle to lay telegraph cables across the Atlantic in the 1850s and '60s is chronicled. When Field finally succeeded, in 1866, it marked "the annihilation of space and time," says historian David Czitrom. But the 13-year effort -- recalled here in re-creations and comments from historians and engineers -- included many false starts and one spectacular failure. Still, says Czitrom, "he never let up."
Genre : Documentary
Actors : -
Release Date : 2005-04-11
Duration : 55 menit
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Other Episodes (Season 17)
1. RFK (Part 1 & 2)
2. The Fight
3. Fidel Castro
4. Building the Alaska Highway
5. Kinsey
6. Mary Pickford
7. The Great Transatlantic Cable
8. The Massie Affair
9. Victory in the Pacific
10. The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
11. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
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