Charles Tilston Bright c. 1858

Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888), was an British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, for which work he was knighted. Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

Born on June 8, 1832 in Wanstead, Essex. At fifteen he became a clerk under the Electric Telegraph Company and his talent for electrical engineering was obvious such that he was appointed engineer to the Magnetic Telegraph Company in 1852. In that role he supervised the laying of lines in the British Isles, including in 1853 the first cable between Scotland and Ireland, from Portpatrick to Donaghadee, when he was just 21. It was this work that showed the feasability of an electric undersea cable connection between Ireland and North America. June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Wanstead is a place in the London Borough of Redbridge. ... Essex is an administrative county in the East of England. ... Electric Telegraph Company was the worlds first public telegraph company founded in Britain in 1846 by Sir William Cooke and Joseph Ricardo. ... Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... Hanging on to the extreme south-westerly tip of mainland Scotland, cut into a cleft in steep cliffs, is the village of Portpatrick. ... Donaghadee (Domhnach Daoi in Irish) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland, situated on the east coast, about 18 miles from Belfast. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...

Joining with Cyrus Field and J. W. Brett, who controlled the Newfoundland Telegraph Company Bright organized the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856 to develop a transatlantic cable with himself as engineer-in-chief. After two disappointments, in 1858, Bright successfully accomplished what to many had seemed an impossible feat. Within a few days of landing the Irish end of the line at Valentia he was knighted in Dublin. Sir Charles Bright then supervised the laying of submarine cables in various regions of the world including in the Mediterranean and in India. He was also a consulting engineer for two following transatlantic cables, after the first cable broke after several months. Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819–July 11/12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who led a company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. ... The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed in 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean, the first such telecommunications link. ... A transatlantic telephone cable is a submarine communications cable that carries telephone traffic under the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath),is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ...

In conjunction with Josiah Latimer Clark, with whom he entered into partnership in 1861, he invented improved methods of insulating undersea cables. A paper on electrical standards read before the British Association, led to the establishment of the British Association committee on that subject, which in turn formed the foundations of the system still in use.

From 1865 to 1868 he was Liberal M.P. for Greenwich and was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1887. He died on the May 3, 1888, at Abbey Wood, near London. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as... MP may stand for: Member of Parliament military police magic points (in roleplaying games) Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and USPS state code) milepost multiprocessing in computers Minimalist Program (linguistics) Modus ponens Megapixel M.P is also a drummer of an alternative rock band School... Greenwich (pronounced gren-itch , or by the locals) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... Not to be confused with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... St. ...

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Hounslow Guardian article