History of telecommunications -Smith page 730

In 1848 it assumed in company Gutta-percha Company in London shortly after it is struggling with the issue of isolation of submarine cables for use telegraphic. The company in 1849 received an order for the supply of 30 miles of cable for the connection between the submarine telegraphic town Douvres and Calais and the following year Smith has supervised the construction and installation of cable on this occasion had the opportunity to collaborate with Wheatstone.
In 1854 the first cable laying in the Mediterranean between La Spezia and Corsica, the Corsica and Sardinia, and later between between Sardinia and Cona in Algeria. On his return and appointed head of Gutta-percha Works founded in 1864. In 1865 laying the cable linking Ireland to Newfoundland. In 1873 addressed a letter to Clark Latimer which makes published in the scientific journal Nature, letter submitting the photo-sensitive properties of selenium. And finally in 1883 contributes to the development of wireless telegraphy presenting all ' "Institution of Electrical Engineers" a report on telegraph transmission trains moving.

Willoughby Smith