Wildman Whitehouse
Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse (1 October 1816 – 26 January 1890) was an English surgeon by profession and an electrical experimenter by avocation. He was recruited by entrepreneur
Cyrus West Field as Chief Electrician to work on the pioneering endeavour to lay the first
transatlantic telegraph cable for the
Atlantic Telegraph Company between western Ireland to eastern
Newfoundland. This pioneering project of the
Victorian era began in 1854 and was completed in 1858; however the cable functioned for only three weeks. While Whitehouse sent the first
telegraph communications on 16 August 1858 to the United States of America, he was ultimately held responsible for the
undersea cable failure after he applied higher voltages in an effort to boost declining signals.
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