Technology and Ideology in Daniel Huntington's Atlantic Cable Projectors.

The article discusses the painting "The Atlantic Cable Projectors," an 1866 commemorative portrait painting of the business leaders responsible for laying the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The article describes the work of the painter Daniel Huntington, the historical significance of the cable operation led by the president of Atlantic Telegraph Company Cyrus W. Field, and the symbolic aspects of the painting in relation to American ideals of innovation, progress, and technological development. Other subjects under discussion include the influence of the painting "Men of Progress: American Inventors" by Christian Schussele on Huntington's portrait, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the relation between American art and capitalism.