Model of underwater cable-laying plow
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
name: label: maker
content: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A model of a plow used for installing underground telegraph cables. The cable spool is mounted on top with channel down back of plow; rollers at upper part to permit operation of spool and cable without friction. A 23 November 1896 letter from Charles Selden, Superintendent of Telegraph, B&O Railroad states in part: "The models ... were gotten up under the supervision of Major J. G. Pangborn to be shown at, I think, the first New Orleans Exposition sometime between 1884 and 1886, .... The model of the Morse plow was made at the Mt. Clare shops under the supervision of a couple of men who said their recollection about it was quite clear. ... They are probably as near correct as could be gotten under the circumstances."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from B&O Railroad Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.180065
label: accession number
content: 20796
label: catalog number
content: 180065
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plow for Installing Underground Telegraph Cable
label: Object Name
content: cable plow
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 27 in x 6 in; 36.83 cm x 68.58 cm x 15.24 cm