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Excerpt from The Life Story of Sir Charles Tilston Bright: Civil Engineer; With Which Is Incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies In this connection, Bright's youthful talent has been spoken Of as scarcely second to that Of William Pitt. His mind was essentially an inventive one; but he was equally a man Of action. It was, probably, the union Of these two qualities which enabled him to overcome the difficulties encountered in laying the First Atlantic Cable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.