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Submarine cable section
A section of deep-sea cable. It is cylindrical with a brass mount. The stranded copper wire surrounded by outer sheathing, a single covering of canvas tape followed by a coat of Bright and Clark's compound, then a single covering of Bright and Clark's hemps compounded. Twenty galvanised iron wires.
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Object Details
| ID: | AAB0134 |
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| Collection: | Communications and signalling |
| Type: | Submarine cable |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | R. S. Newall & Co |
| Vessels: | Blazer (1856); Elba 1854 |
| Date made: | 1857 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | 150 mm |
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