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Joining with Cyrus West Field and J. W. Brett, who controlled the Newfoundland Telegraph Company, Bright helped organize the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856 to develop a transatlantic cable, with himself as engineer-in-chief; Wildman Whitehouse soon joined them as chief electrician.
Brett wrote his 2008 novel The Painted Man (The Warded Man in the US) and much of his second novel on his HP Ipaq 6515 while on the New York subway.
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He is the author of the Demon Cycle, whose first volume was published in the UK by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in 2008 as The Painted Man and in the US by Del Rey Books as The Warded Man.
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The Painted Man (2008) (US title The Warded Man; 2009)(FR title L'Homme-Rune; 2009)
He held a number of Visiting Professorships: University of Rochester, USA, 1958–1959; Kiel University, University of Osnabrück, 1977; University of Baroda, Jadavpur University, 1978; University of Ottawa, 1981.
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Andrew Marvell: essays on the tercentenary of his death Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1979.
During World War I, Brett was ordered to the European battlefield with the Tank Corps and was promoted to the rank of Captain on July 25, 1917.