Sectioned sample of Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
date: label: date made
content: 1857
name: label: maker
content: Glass, Elliot, & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sample of 1858 transatlantic telegraph cable. Copper core with gutta percha insulation and steel armor wires. Sectioned to show construction layers. Accompanying letter indicates this was recovered off the coast of Ireland in 1936.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. J. R. Morris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.MHI-I-8562
label: accession number
content: 323571
label: catalog number
content: MHI-I-8562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cable Section, Telephone, First Trans Atlantic
label: Object Name
content: cable sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 5/8 in; 22.86 cm x 1.5875 cm