History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
Equipment
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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lengths of cable immersed in water meant that conventional land-line transmitting
and receiving equipment could not be used. A whole range of specialised
equipment was developed by the scientists and engineers involved in laying
and working the early cables.
Here we show some of the equipment used in the submarine cable industry over the years. Click on the image to go to the page for that item. |
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Copyright © 2007 FTL Design
Last revised: 27 July, 2008
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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 |
