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results, though holding somewhat different views, for his (Sir 
C. Bright’s) calculations, using other instruments, led him to 
believe that a conductor nearly four times the size of that 
adopted would be desirable with a slightly thicker insulator. 
It was this type which the new cables just laid had been fur- 
nished with. 
“In 1856, Mr. Cyrus Field—to whom the world was as much 
indebted for the establishment of the line as to any man— 
came over to England upon the completion of the telegraph 
between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. He then joined 
with the late Mr. Brett and himself (Sir C. Bright) with the 
view of extending the system to Europe, and they mutually 
agreed, as also did Mr. Whitehouse later, to carry out the 
undertaking. A meeting was first held in Liverpool, and in 
the course of a few days their friends had subscribed the neces- 
sary capital... . 
“The credit attached to these second and third Atlantic 
cables must mainly rest with the Telegraph Construction 
Company (formerly Messrs. Glass, Elliott & Company) and 
their staff. . . . To Mr. Glass, upon whom the principal re- 
sponsibility of the manufacture devolved, the greatest praise 
was due for his indomitable perseverance in the enterprise. 
Then the art of insulating the conducting-wire had been so 
wonderfully improved by Mr. Chatterton and Mr. Willough- 
by Smith, that, nowadays, a very feeble current was sufficient 
to work the longest circuits, an enormous advance on the 
state of affairs nine years previously. Again, they must not 
forget how much of the success now attained was due to Pro- 
fessor ‘Thomson and his delicate signaling-apparatus. .. . 
“Tt was satisfactory to find that the cables were already be- 
ing worked at a very large profit. ‘This system would doubt- 
less be quadrupled within a short period, when the land-lines 
on the American side were improved (hear, hear, and ap- 
plause). . . . There was a future for submarine telegraphy to 
which scarcely any bounds could be imagined.” 
