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Cyrus Field

It took a decade of effort, heart-breaking disappointments, and the largest ship afloat before Cyrus Field could lay a successful cable across the Atlantic

Cyrus West Field was one of the greatest Americans of the nineteenth century, but today there can be few of his countrymen who remember him.

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