The house passed through numerous owners, including Cyrus Field, John Jacob Astor III and Amzi Lorenzo Barber.

Armed with this location and the information that Cyrus Field gathered from a US Navy oceanographic seabed survey, that had taken place the year before, the project got underway.

Another brother, Cyrus Field, laid the transatlantic cable from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1867.

Cyrus Field (1970-71), while still a large Minimalist sculpture, marks a transition.

Pioneered by Cyrus Field, mainland Europe had been connected by telegraphy as had Europe to Britain and Britain to Ireland.

American financier, Cyrus Field, contributed £1,000 to help with construction costs.

She was the great-granddaughter of Cyrus Field.

But Cyrus Field was attracted to business - its pace, pulse and risk-taking.

Its managing director, the intelligent Cyrus Field, purposed even covering all the islands of Oceanica with a vast electrical network, an immense enterprise, and one worthy of American genius.

Everything never comes out all right, but as Cyrus Field knew, in spite of the most hopeless circumstances, some things do.