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Cyrus Field

Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was an American financier who, along with Samuel Morse, founded a corporation to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland. This telegraph cable, laid in 1858, lasted only for one month.

Field later headed a consortium which succeeded in laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable.



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