TAT-1 sample on display mount
date: label: date made
content: 1955
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Small sample of the first Transatlantic Telephone Cable (TAT-1) mounted on a small plastic display. Printed on base: “Transatlantic Telephone Cables”, “North America”, Montreal”, “New York”, “Iceland”, “London”, “Paris”, “Europe”. Cable made by Submarine Cables Ltd., in Erith, Kent, UK. TAT-1 operational in September 1956. Label text from Underwater Web: "The new cables had a central copper conductor surrounded by a second coaxial conductor that provided a "return" path for the electricity. Instead of gutta percha, the insulator was polyethylene, a synthetic plastic that had been developed in the 1930s."
label: Location
content: Currently on loan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0036.19
label: accession number
content: 2015.0036
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0036.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cable sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: stand: 1 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: cable: 1 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 3.175 cm