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Description: | SPECIMENS OF WESTERN AND BRAZILIAN TELEGRAPH Co.'s CABLES: RIO DE JANEIRO TO PARA MANUFACTURED AND SUBMERGED BY HOOPER'S TELEGRAPH WORKS, LIMITED, LONDON. 1873.(printed in gold on the inside of the lid on purple velvet) Two labels were attached to the silk lining with a safety pin and purpole silk thread (removed to OHF). The smaller label reads Miss Bottomley the larger reads on one side: To South America SAMPLES of FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES MISS BOTTOMLEY'S father assisted his uncle Professor Thomson (later Lord kelvin) of Glasgow University, on laying the first cables to Brazil to Pernambuco in 1873. Later W. Bottomley was himself in charge of finishing the cables South to Rio de JANEIRO- Previously Professor Thomson, convinced". On the other side " To North America of possibilities of Cable Laying Attempted in 1856 a cable to New York-this cable broke in mid-ocean but eas picked up again & joined-and actually landed that year- but failed after 2 weeks in operation! In nine years, 1865-Prof Thomson attempted again with stronger cables. After many mishaps & set backs he successfully completed Cable to N. AMERICA in 1866" MANU Hooper's Telegraph Manufacturing Company Limited. 1873 Millwall and Mitcham, London, England. N.B. errors in dates on the hand written label. Date for laying the first transatlantic cable was 1857-8, the brazilian cable was 1874 and of course they were telegraph cables and not telephone cables. The first transatlantic telephone cable was not laid until 1956.
This box contains five sections of the cable. | 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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