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.
... also an autobiography entitled Von Magdeburg nach Königsberg (1873), which deals with his life up to the time of his settlement at Königsberg.
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