Wires

Usage examples of cables.

Bishop Bullock published his letter, there were as yet no working submarine cables at all.

Governor Hamilton convened his council and they agreed to ask the Newfoundland Assembly to grant a charter giving the new company exclusive rights to lay telegraph lines on the island and cables touching Newfoundland for fifty years.

But because each gutta tree yields only two or three pounds of gutta-percha, and long submarine cables could require hundreds, even thousands, of tons, the next fifty years would see the gutta trees extirpated from much of their native range.

He also hired Samuel Canning, a young British engineer who had experience laying cables in the Mediterranean, to supervise the project.

One was that submarine cables could not be laid from sailing ships or vessels under tow, unable to adjust their speed easily and quickly as circumstances required.

The cutting-edge technology of telegraph cables required the cutting-edge technology of steam to lay them.

NEEDING THE FRESH financial pastures to be found in the United Kingdom, Field also realized that the British government had an important interest in the success of the Atlantic cable in particular and in long-distance submarine cables in general.

His choice would in the future become the site of all cables originating in Ireland.

In fact, by 1861, although 11,364 miles of submarine cables had been laid worldwide, only about 3,000 miles were still operating.

And we are convinced that if regard be had to the principles we have enunciated in devising, manufacturing, laying and maintaining submarine cables, this class of enterprise may prove as successful as it has hitherto been disastrous.

Wires were brought in connecting the house to every telegraph system in Europe, and the guests viewed various types of telegraph equipment and cables and were treated to demonstrations.

Samuel Canning had fished cables out of deep water before and was determined to try again.

The ever-growing demand caused more and more cables to be laid in different areas of the world.

In 1502 the globe was at last girdled with submarine cables when a line was run from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Australia and New Zealand.

TELEGRAPHY, the first practical use of the transient electrical currents that William Thomson had investigated in the 1850s, quickly became an alternative technology to submarine cables, but never replaced them, even for nonsecret communications.