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English: First attempt to install an electrical conductor from Dover to Calais, made by the Goliath and the Widgeon, August 28, 1850.
Illustration for Les Merveilles De La Science ou Description Populaire des Inventions Modernes by Louis Figuier (Furne, Jouvet, c 1870). reference
Français : Première tentative pour la pose d’un conducteur électrique de Douvres à Calais, faite par le Goliath et le Widgeon, le 28 août 1850
Date circa 1870
date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Figuier - Les Merveilles de la science, 1867 - 1891, Tome 2.djvu
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Louis Figuier  (1819–1894)  wikidata:Q2571091 s:en:Author:Louis Figuier q:it:Louis Figuier
 
Louis Figuier
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Guillaume Louis Figuier; L. Figuier; Louis Guillaume Figuier
Description French writer, physician writer, journalist, chemist, physician and pharmacist
Date of birth/death 15 February 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 8 November 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Montpellier 9th arrondissement of Paris
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