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Communications and signalling
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'Unknown 64' Collection
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Francis Frith & Co
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Table globe
Technical drawing
telecommunications t&e: cable, submarine
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Topographic model: Denny's Shipyard, Dumbarton
water transport: fighting vessel: patrol boat, anti-submarine
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)
water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked: equipped: rigged)
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Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd
Bryson, R. M.
Buxton, Michael K.
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Day & Son
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Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
F. C. Gould & Son
Fairmile Construction Co Ltd
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HM Dockyard, Gibraltar, photographic section
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Ellen MacArthur circumnavigation, 2004
Opening of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1858
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112ft Fairmile B type motor launch
Amethyst (1844)
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Chyebassa (1907)
Chyebassa (1942)
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Edinburgh (1855)
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Jane Henderson (1859)
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Kenya (1951)
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P 34 1916
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Buxton, Michael K.
Captain Henry Manning, Henry
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Eastern Telegraph Co
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Lucas, Francis Robert
South, Tim
South Kensington Museum
Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Ltd
William Denny and Brothers Limited
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Chart shewing deep sea soundings and the tracks of the
telegraph
cables laid between Europe and America
Construction
works being undertaken in the harbour at Naples, Italy (Sheet film negative)
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
Submarine cable box (Submarine cable box)
Boxed set of submarine cable samples (Submarine cable)
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Stand
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
Submarine cable with presentation case (Submarine cable)
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable cross section (Submarine cable cross section)
Submarine cable length (Submarine cable length)
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