New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-08
The Atlantic Gable.

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There is the same difference between the appearance
a. ne Atlantic cable Of this and last between white
man and black ut this difference purely eisSn ana
coating, Of gutts pechs and compound WIN wnich GOV
cred These precisely the last yea and in shape
make size the cable Of today identical with the one
concerning which sangune hopes were raised twelve
xsed Manila coating before bat these
gavan ed rou the necessity for larry covering ~
abolished and the cable being this time put on board the
Great Eastern the rate OF more than hundred miles week
looks like ordinary ships rope which ha just e the store
To trace manufacture Of the Atlantic cable in ts early
ssse is necessary to ys The o Wo or :. the
Yer wire fine packthresd as received from
placed on bbbns and running through the gutinous nix
apre Chatertons compound passes up vertical
spDde which s FED by six other boobns on which are the
Same wire. These wres-sz round the central one
makes nearly perfect circle and the medium OF eectr-
Gal communication Everything else about the cable Is either
insulation protecting the precious core the diameter
Of which about that Of small pea II is perhaps un5eee'
while messages could be conveyed through any OF Their pg
s e sisn mn. zoe be- sohsdere for al practical PURPOSES
The preparation and application OF zoe gIiia peehs coat
establishment bocks Of guns Pereha stacked
away the primitive in which they left the natives sell
tng them. Idols dragons insects monsters and animals are
ali 10 be seen rudey fashioned in the plastic material 1t left
tree and hardened into What resembles wood You
al sides feel in the dim light whichever way you
yoo hand and hear without wonder OF the guam
ia5tic cable The different qualities Of this useful material
Sstter easily seen when bts are broken off, Inside ii looks
he hard toucwood outside it resembles peat or solid lump.
f bark From the basement where this Of material
Do boased you pass 10 the floor in the rooms Of
which IL 10 being carefully made available FIRST the
ssen the mass is boiled in huge caudrons until color and
resembles 80 many masses Of qGhed granlte
ticker and the cold water test foreign substances
animated until after boiling it placed under NV
arauc pressure treated fud and comes cleared and
q msstcstiOn Which consists teeth on double
roller being employed in working upon The sHs peIshs until
Hhe same process repeated with single roller mastcsor
and thus By repested qualification and manipulation perfectly
highly than other the peculiar properties needed IN sub
marine tegspy The electric wire !: first passed through
and attaches the guta erchs the copper and finally into
b the erst layer for the cable and soon as it
b completed careful tests again applied. The
ssGess and in coS water and Of testing is repeated
hnss until the cable the substance Of slight vakingeane
wound round lengths Of 1890 yards which drums
deposited bodily N tank. OF yateI lest. are Constantly
psbe these works have immersed IN water at uni
ts ssS Z, ths hotter the Of The cable the more
hyng to m insulating power will be readily seen that the
Of tbe electric favorable both TO copper
aud quite percba the becoming better conductor and
placed Gnta-perchs In insulating power by
Iessoe aud follows that the colder snd deeper the water
Hsving been placed bigger drums is transferred in
lengths Of from fcur TO FIVE hundred yards 70 hoden wharf
Greenwich where the remainder Of manufacture carried
sn Here is again tested at IS degrees and ' guiia pechs
piping appearance soon gires place TO one more
sonsonant with the word cable First receives coating
lutte put on by o. Robbins and hollow spindle
This done II is plunged in cold 10 to IS iosrs after
~hieb tests again rgidly applied There tanks
ployed 10 this particular immersion each tank holding
3haD miles OF cable We 81 coil after IL
had been several hOurs could discern 70 diff
Ssreoce sight touch in its condition that - the
cable just leaving the IuegTing machinery From
tanis is passed through troughs down stairs and cones
cp 70 receive it, fns protection OF homogeneous gava
tsed wires each Of which has stout coating OF Manila
cable 10 now complete IN into s gigantic
aanks where 10 again in cold and
still constantly applied From these tanks II il paid out
through trough into the huk stationed few yards from
wharf and BY this 10 carried TO the Great Eastern
ebesyBess Tho Amethyst, az old Government frigate
dong duty a. bulk during visit; and has been
oks Ear more ike an ugly Noahs ara than ship Of
D~s Of the pswriten laws Of rivere he that
strangers may board end vst ships st snebor without being
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