Charles Tilston Bright
Sir Charles Tilston Bright ( born June 8, 1832 in Wanstead, Essex; † May 3, 1888 in Abbey Wood, Kent ) was an English electrical engineer.
Charles Tilston Bright attended the Merchant Taylor 's School, and began in 1847 as a laborer for cable operations in the previous year, which was founded in Magnetic Telegraph Company in London. The management recognized his talent, he was appointed in 1852 as an engineer and earned him 1853, the undergrounding of several one thousand miles telegraph cable in England. In the same year he was commissioned to the Irish Donaghadee with the transfer of his first submarine cable of Scottish Portpatrick.
With Josiah Latimer Clark, he developed an asphalt mixture for the coating of deep-sea cables. It became known as 'Bright and Clark 's compound ' and was patented in 1863 (No. 466 ). With Alexander Graham Bell in 1855, he developed an acoustic telegraph.
When Cyrus W. Field to relocate in 1856 in New York, for the first time you attempt a transatlantic cable between Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Ireland, founded his Atlantic Telegraph Company, he won John Watkins Brett and Bright as chief electrician. It was furthermore Wildman Whitehouse (1816-1890) involved. After two failed attempts succeeded on August 5, 1858, the landing of the transatlantic cable at Valentia Iceland in the Irish Kerry. Bright was then collected a few days in Dublin to the peerage. Although the cable failed in October was again demonstrated the feasibility of a trans-Atlantic cable laying.
Bright worked as a consulting engineer in the second (1865 ) and third ( 1866) Transatlantic cable laying and led the oversight in the deep sea cable linings through the Mediterranean ( 1861-1873 ) and the cable laying in the West Indies ( 1865-1868 ).
From 1865 to 1868, he was a member of the Liberal Greenwich in Parliament. A bid again he refused.
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- Sir Charles Tilston Bright - biography
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