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Description: | None. Found in box marked "KC 10 plus Hooper specimen KC3, 4 on show 6-81". A label found inside the box bears the legend "5 specimens of early cable given by Dr Isabel F. Gough, 8. Jan. 1962, as relics from her Uncle Will. Falconer King (Ref S.P. Thompson). They may come from the Brazil- Newfoundland cable as W.F.K. supervised this." DES HOOPER,William. 1868 London, England. MANU Hooper's Telegraph Manufacturing Company Limited. between 1867 and 1876 Millwall and Mitcham, London, England. This section of cable is comprised of a inner core of seven strands of copper surrounded by an insulating layer of what appears to be paper and gutta-percha .It is similar to Hooper's patent core of 1868 which has, however, a single copper conductor. The overall construction is also similar to the Atlantic cable of 1866 and it would appear that this section of cable may indeed be from the Brazil-Newfoundland telegraph as suggested by the label. The core is reinforced with nine strands of [galvanised] iron wire wrapped in a vegetable fibre to form a cable. On loan to the Physics and Astronomy Department EXIT NUMBER 2092 it is object 12 in display case D 'Kelvin & the New Professors ', in room 470, The Kelvin Building, Department of Physics and Astronomy Glasgow University. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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