Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was an American financier [1] who, along with Samuel Morse, founded a corporation to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland. This telegraph cable, laid in 1858, lasted only for one month. Field later headed a consortium which succeeded in laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.