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Sir Charles Tilston Bright, detail of a lithograph, 1850
Sir Charles Tilston Bright, detail of a lithograph, 1850

Sir Charles Tilston Bright

British engineer
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Sir Charles Tilston Bright (born June 8, 1832, Wanstead, Essex, Eng.—died May 3, 1888, Abbey Wood, near London) was a British engineer who superintended the laying of the first Atlantic telegraph cable. In 1852 he became an engineer for the Magnetic Telegraph Company, for which he laid thousands of miles of underground telegraph lines in England as well as the first undersea cable (1853) from Portpatrick, Scot., to Donaghadee, Ire. In 1856, Bright, with Cyrus...

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