History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

1923 New York - Canso Atlantic Cable

Commercial Cable Company 1923 Atlantic Cable Specimen

Brass base impressed front:
DEEP SEA SECTION/ 1923/ ATLANTIC CABLE

Brass base impressed back with company world globe and ribbon logo:
1884/1923/THE MACKAY SYSTEM "THE PULSE OF THE WORLD"

Cable manufactured by Siemens Bros. for the
Commercial Cable Company, laid by CS Faraday (2)

Images courtesy of the George Glazer Gallery
which often has for sale cable samples and
other interesting artifacts from cable history

Research Material Needed

The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.

You can help - if you have cable material, old or new, please contact me. Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.

If you have any cable-related items that you could photograph, copy, scan, loan, or sell, please email me: billb@ftldesign.com