Three-conductor submarine telegraph cable
A.C. Day
Kerit Cable
New York
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Telegraph Age, January 1, 1908
Brixey vs. Kerite.
The word “Kerite” has become invested with a peculiar meaning and significance, decidedly unique in the history of electrical device nomenclature. The combination of the names of “Brixey” and “Kerite” is a strong one, each suggesting the other, standing for all that is best in the telegraph field in insulated wires and cables, whether designed for aerial, underground or submarine purposes. The Kerite products also cover telephone, power, lighting and other fields. While the range indicated is a wide one, the high quality and durability of the output of the extensive Kerite plant, located at Seymour, Conn., has elevated all its products to the lofty measure of “standard.” This pre-eminence has been fairly and conscientiously won in the many years devoted to high standard of excellence and improvement in manufacturing detail and gives the house to-day a commanding position in the trade.
W.R. Brixey advertisement |
Kerite is an insulating material made under secret process, and for nearly fifty years has remained unquestioned in its integrity of action. During this period of half a century of continuous service, tests of the most rigid character, made under peculiar and trying conditions, have demonstrated beyond all question its desirability and adaptability for the purposes intended. Age does not impair its fine qualities, but rather does it tend to its betterment. As long ago as 1868, Prof. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, impressed with the excellence of the then newly discovered compound, “Kerite,” took occasion to write approvingly of it to Austin G. Day, the inventor. This letter, coming from such an eminent source, embodied in the advertisement of Mr. Brixey, printed on another page [below], will be read with interest. Events have since shown that Prof. Morse’s approval of Kerite was another example of his keen insight and good judgment.
Mr. Day spent many years in tests and experiments in the endeavor to procure a compound which would withstand deteriorating influences and trying conditions. Para rubber, while being of the highest class for insulating purposes, was limited as to its natural life. Mr. Day sought a combination which would preserve the life of the virgin rubber and have of itself great life and durability.. That his many years’ search and labor were well spent has been amply demonstrated by the only real test. the test of time. Kerite insulated wires and cable have done continuous service for the past forty to fifty years and there are in operation to-day many such cables that have given the highest service for this long period of time.
Two-page Kerite Cables advertisement |
Insulated Wires and Cables
AERIAL • UNDERGROUND • SUBMARINE
Efficiency - Durability - Economy
The Insulation which has
SUCCESSFULLY
withstood the test of half
a century.
Kerite Wires and Cables (Aerial - Under-
ground - Submarine) installed nearly half
a century ago, are in service now. |
Extract from letter to A.G. Day (the
Father of Kerite) from S.F.B. Morse
(the Father of the Telegraph).
| “Its quality or rather property of resisting the deteriorating causes which tend to destroy sooner or later the insulation by gutta percha, or caoutchouc, makes it an invaluable discovery in aid of telegraphic extension. The test to which it has been submitted and by which it has been proved to resist the deteriorating effects of the ozone of the atmosphere appear perfectly satisfactory, and I therefore most cheerfully and cordially join with those who have tested its efficiency in congratulating you on your success in introducing so valuable an aid to the telegraphic enterprise of the world.” |
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The oldest, largest and most successful
Manufacturer of Insulated Telegraph
Wires and Cables
W. R. B RIXEY
SOLE MANUFACTURER
203 Broadway, N.Y. US A |
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