Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Thrilling Race to Wire the World ONLINE

Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age

With author James M. Tabor

WEDNESDAY, June 10th at 6:00 P.M.

An In-Person and Online Program

The in-person program will be followed by a Book-signing and Reception.

Presented in Partnership with The Victorian Society New York

In this program, based on his book, Lightning Beneath the Sea, author James M. Tabor will tell the thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that changed the world. In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans. But he believed that wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. As Mr. Tabor will describe in enthralling detail, how in 1866, after enduring over a decade of catastrophic failures and staggering losses, Field would finally lay his great cable, ushering in the global information age.

James M. Tabor is the author of six books, including the award-winning Forever on the Mountain and best-selling Blind Descent. A creator of the History Channel’s Journey to the Center of the World, he has written for Time, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and others. He lives in Waitsfield, Vermont.

General Admission: $15; General Society Members, Victorian Society Members and Senior Citizens: $10; Students: $5

Lightning Beneath the Sea will be available to purchase in-person at the lecture and available online

Advance Registration required.

The General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, New York City, www. generalsociety.org