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Submarine telegraph cable

One of two pieces of submarine telegraph cable of shore end type laid in 1885 in the Persian Gulf, one piece dissected to show layers, made for the Persian Indo-European Telegraph Department, 1885

Submarine telegraph cable, transatlantic

Transatlantic submarine telegraph cable, length of metal, gutta percha and yarn, recovered by cable ship John W. Mackay in 1952 while repairing a modern cable in the mid Atlantic, 1880 - 1910

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