Map No. 4 (Western Section) Dominion of Canada Telegraph & Signal Service
Montreal: Ministry of Public Works, 1883. Notes: A superb large scale map of British Columbia depicting telegraph and signal service. On the lower left with an inlet map of the World showing the principal telegraph lines & electric cable connections throughout the World.
Prepared by the Department of Public Works, Sir Hector L. Langevin.
Printed by G.E. Desbarats & Co in Montreal.
Frederic Newton Gisborne (8 March 1824 – 30 August 1892) was a British inventor and electrician.
Born in Broughton, England, he left England in 1842 for a trip around the world, finally settling in Canada in 1845. By close study he became an expert electrician, and original improvements in methods and instruments soon attracted so much attention that he was appointed superintendent of the lines of the Nova Scotia government at Halifax. He laid the first deep-sea cable in North American waters, between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick in 1852.
In 1879, Gisborne was appointed superintendent of the Canadian government telegraph service, which position he held until his death. Among his numerous inventions were an anti-induction ocean cable, electric and pneumatic ship signals, an anticorrosive composition for the bottoms of iron ships, and an electric recording target.
, Size : 900x1240 (mm), 35.375x48.75 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Wall Maps;Maps Canada West British Columbia;. Very Good, Item #M6044
Notes: A superb large scale map of British Columbia depicting telegraph and signal service. On the lower left with an inlet map of the World showing the principal telegraph lines & electric cable connections throughout the World.
Prepared by the Department of Public Works, Sir Hector L. Langevin.
Printed by G.E. Desbarats & Co in Montreal, Size : 900x1240 (mm), 35.375x48.75 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Wall Maps;Maps Canada West British Columbia;.
Price: $3,750.00