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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 [THOMSON,William,Lord,1st Baron Kelvin of Largs.] between 1858 and 1866 MANU W.T. Henley. between 1864 and 1865 North Woolwich, London, England. This section of cable is from the 1865 laying of the transatlantic cable and not as suggested by the old label from the Brazil-Newfoundland cable. It would have been surrounded by a reinforcement made of ?tanned jute (fide Bernard S. Finn, 1973, Submarine Telegraphy The Grand Victorian Technology, p.30 ) and ten strands of iron wire. The fibre used for the 1866 cable, according to the an old Royal Museum of Scotland label (see OHF:3.11), was a layer of manila around the core and the armour was wrapped in hemp. The 1865 cable did not have any galvanic protection. This specimen is much thicker than the main cable and is from the shore section which had extra reinforcement against wave and tidal action as well as silica to protect the core from boring molluscs. It has the same basic design as the main cable having a seven strand copper conductor in four layers of Gutta percha and Chatterton's compound (a mixture of gutta percha, rosin and Stockholm tar). It, therefore, may have been recovered from the laying operation, when the cable was repaired in 1867, or in any of the subsequent repairs, until the cable was abandonded in 1872. The cable was laid at the British end from Valentia in County Kerry, Ireland, in the Estate of Mr Peter George Fitzgerald "The Knight of Kerry" later created Baronet in 1880. Thence to Heart's Content on the East Coast of Newfoundland. On loan to the Physics and Astronomy Department EXIT NUMBER 2092 it is object 9 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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