Lightning Beneath the Sea by James M. Tabor (Hardcover)

Lightning Beneath the Sea by James M. Tabor tells how American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out in 1854 to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the floor of the Atlantic. Knowing little about telegraphy, electricity or the ocean, he believed instant communication could bring peace to the world. Through more than a decade of ridicule, failures, losses and close calls, and with help from figures like Samuel Morse, he finally succeeded in 1866.