History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy -

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
Atlantic Cables of 1858, 1865, 1866

Maker's sample case for the 1858, 1865, and 1866 Atlantic Cables
Photographed April 2009, Science Museum, London

1858	1865	1866
Detail of cable sections

Recovered 1865 cable, model of grapnel, and wire rope

Plate showing a similar sample case
from the book Great Inventions, 1932

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