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| No. |
Description |
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| 1 |
110mm x 15mm, stranded (1 + 6) core, twisted very thin wire armour, brass label:
“A part of the Atlantic submarine electric telegraph cable. Manufactured by Glass, Elliot & Co. London ”
1857/58 Atlantic cable, deep-sea. |
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| 2 |
100mm x 20mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 16 small diameter armour wires, covered in varnished hemp:
“Silvertown Telegraph Works, London”
“248”
Unknown. |
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| 3 |
75mm x 30mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 hemp-bound armour wires (untarred):
“Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company Ltd.”
“Contractors, London”
“Société du Cable Transatlantique Français Limited”
“Brest to New York 1869”
“Deep Sea Cable”
1869 French Atlantic cable. Similar to 1865/66 Atlantic cable, but a slightly larger conductor. See also number 6. |
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| 4 |
75mm x 30mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 hemp-bound armour wires (tarred), very light weight:
“Glass Elliot & Co.”
“46”
“Contractors London”
1865 Atlantic cable.
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| 5 |
70mm x 30mm, single segmented (1 + 11) core, 18 armour wires, covered with hemp
Unknown. |
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| 6 |
86mm x 30mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 hemp-bound armour wires, very light weight:
“Atlantic 1869”
1869 French Atlantic cable. Similar to 1865/66 Atlantic cable, but a slightly larger conductor. See also number 3. |
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| 7 |
100mm x 35mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 12 armour wires:
“165”
Unknown. |
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| 8 |
100mm x 35mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 armour wires
Unknown. |
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| 9 |
153mm x 35mm, segmented (1 + 4) core, 12 armour wires, teredo shield, hemp covering, paper label:
“Cable laid from the Cape to St Helena during the year 1900”
1899 Cape Town - St Helena - Ascension cable. |
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| 10 |
145mm x 32mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 armour wires
Unknown
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| 11 |
100mm x 50mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, double armoured, 12 and 14 wires, varnished hemp outer:
“Silvertown Telegraph Works, London”
“166”
Unknown shore-end. |
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| 12 |
90mm x 65mm, single strand (1 + 6) core, double armoured, 10 hemp-bound wires (same as deep-sea section) surrounded by 12 x 3 woven wires, small paper label:
“First Atlantic marine cable”
1865 Atlantic shore end. |
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| 13 |
75mm x 30mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 hemp-bound armour wires, very light weight. On stand with plate:
“Atlantic 1866”
1866 Atlantic cable. See also number 4. |
See main photo above |
| 14 |
Watch fob with brass bezel and loose ring, 22mm diameter,
1858 Atlantic cable. |
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| 15 |
70mm diameter alloy, glass-topped case or paperweight:
“Henley Cable”
“W.T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co., London”
“3 x .4 sq. in. PVC insulated textile bedded SWA and served LT cable”
Three core armoured power cable. |
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| 16 |
Brooch with dark wood bezel and back pin, section of 38mm diameter cable, 7 stranded (1 + 6) cores, 24 armour wires
Unknown.
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| 17 |
75mm diameter brass case with glass, containing section of three conductor lead sheathed power
cable:
“Callender’s .075 three phase high tension trunk main”
Underground power cable.
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| 18 |
75mm x 30mm, single stranded (1 + 6) core, 10 hemp-bound armour wires (untarred), very light weight. On marble base.
1866 Atlantic cable. See also number 4. |
See main photo above |
| 19 |
70mm brass case (perhaps originally silver-plated), knurled removable top with bevelled glass, containing a cable section with a single stranded (1 + 6) core and double armour: 10 hemp-bound wires (same as deep-sea section) surrounded by 12 x 3 woven wires.
1865 Atlantic shore end. See also number 12. |
See main photo above |
