# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wildman-whitehouse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:16:16.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wildman-whitehouse"
name: "Wildman Whitehouse"
slug: "wildman-whitehouse"
description: "Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse was an English surgeon by profession and an electrical experimenter by avocation. He was recruited by entrepreneur Cyrus West Field as Chief Electrician to work on the pioneering endeavour to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company between western Ireland to eastern Newfoundland. This pioneering project of the Victorian era began in 1854 and was completed in 1858; however, the cable functioned for only three weeks. While Whitehouse sent the first telegraph communications on 16 August 1858 to the United States of America, he was ultimately held responsible for the undersea cable failure after he applied higher voltages in an effort to boost declining signals."
tagline: "English surgeon and electrical engineer (1816–1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward-orange-wildman-whitehouse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1816-10-01"
deathDate: "1890-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.295934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildman_Whitehouse"
    title: "Wildman Whitehouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "وايلدمان وايتهاوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildman_Whitehouse"
    title: "Wildman Whitehouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildman_Whitehouse"
    title: "Wildman Whitehouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildman_Whitehouse"
    title: "Wildman Whitehouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildman_Whitehouse"
    title: "Wildman Whitehouse"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2468548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump