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Box of submarine cable samples

A wooden box of submarine cable samples. There are sixteen samples of cable - eight short lengths and eight cross sections in a glazed wooden box with a hinged lid: There is a small plaque that gives detials of the cable samples, with an inscription that reads "BRITISH INDIAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S CABLES 1870. CONTRACTORS TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE COMPANY LIMITED & REDUCED".
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Object Details

ID: AAB0152
Collection: Communications and signalling
Type: Submarine cable
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1870
People: HM Admiralty
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts: Box of submarine cable samples