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Cyrus West Field
Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
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business · American businessman (1819–1892) · entrepreneur · financier · inventor · philanthropist · engineer · also Cyrus West Field, Cyrus W. Field, Cyrus Field, Field
Born 20 October 1819 · Died 12 July 1892 · Q1148998
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1892· 1 entry
Died 1892-07-12.
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1867· 1 entry
Field received a gold medal from the U
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1866· 1 entry
Field laid a new, more durable trans-Atlantic cable using Brunel's SS Great Eastern
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1858· 2 entries
Field returned to a triumphant homecoming at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, saluting this Massachusetts boy made good
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When Queen Victoria sent President James Buchanan a message in Morse code
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1857· 2 entries
With artist Louis Rémy Mignot, inspired some of his most famous paintings upon his return to New York
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After securing financing in England and backing from the American and British governments, the Atlantic Telegraph Company began laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable, utilizing a shallow submarine plateau that r
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1853· 1 entry
Field financed an expedition to South America with his artist friend Frederic Edwin Church, during which they explored present-day Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama
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1840· 1 entry
Two days after he turned twenty one, and they had seven children
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1838· 1 entry
Accepted an offer from his brother Matthew to become his assistant in the paper manufacturing venture, the Columbia Mill, in Lee, Massachusetts
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-10-20.
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