Author_Institution :
University of Nottingham, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nottingham, UK
Abstract :
To many people today Valentia is little more than the name of a weather station quoted in shipping forecasts. Here, the writings of James Graves, Valentia´s first superintendent, are used to give some insight into life at the cable station in its early years and also to assess its importance in the development of transatlantic communication
