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Description: | This is a construction drawing of a machine for wire rope production, built by George Fenwick of Gateshead. The caption proclaims that the machine was used to make the Dover to Calais telegraph cable. This was the first submarine telegraph cable, laid in 1850, but it worked for only one day. Ropemaking was an important industry in Gateshead, and several large firms were established there in the 1800s. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East industry | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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