Documents in Year 1853                     

Links of Interest:

• Millard Fillmore, Thirteenth U.S. President

(1850-1853)

• Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth U.S. President

(1853-1857)

• Transatlantic Cable

The U.S.S. Dolphin conducts soundings along the 1600-mile route between Newfoundland and Ireland, discovering that a smooth plateau (soon dubbed the "telegraph plateau") stretches across almost all the distance.