The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm He was shot down and

He was shot down and killed by German fighters defending balloons on 16 September 1918

A group of suffragettes holding placards publicising a public meeting to be held on Ealing Common on 1 June

whilst Britannia urges him to look up from his book at the fighting in the Bulgaria

Gallo Roman

The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm He was shot down andThe 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable, 1866, (c1920). An attempt in 1865 by Brunel's giant steamship, the 'Great Eastern' to lay the cable ended in failure when the cable snapped and the end was lost. The following year the 'Great Eastern' succeeded in retrieving the lost cable and completing it, connecting Valentia in Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Instead of the length of a sea voyage, communication time between the two sides