NS INVENTORS of Gasoline + the Trans-Atlantic cable! cover art

NS INVENTORS of Gasoline + the Trans-Atlantic cable!

NS INVENTORS of Gasoline + the Trans-Atlantic cable!

Listen for free

View show details

About this listen

This episode is Part 1 of a 2 part Victorian Era Retrospective and the first part looks at two fellow East Coasters Frederic Gisborne and Abraham Pineo Gesner.

In part one the massive multi-year effort for Gisborne to span the Atlantic Ocean with a cable to connect the old and new worlds with the lightning on a wire of instant morse code communications in the 1850's

Part two will look at NS Geologist Abraham Gessner and his invention without which those first automobiles weren't going anywhere.

No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.