The Story of the Atlantic Cable

"The Story of the Atlantic Cable" by Charles Bright is a story from long ago that tells about trying to connect the world with a wire under the sea. It's about how people first figured out how to send messages with electricity and the problems they faced when they decided to lay a cable all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. The book gives us insight into the hard work and big ideas of people like Cyrus West Field and Charles Bright. It shows us how they found new materials to protect the cable and how they planned to make the world smaller by connecting countries with instant communication. The book shows all the difficulties they met and how they showed great determination in creating something thought as a miracle at the time which would change how everyone communicated from that point on.