Sectioned sample of Transatlantic Telephone cable 1
date: label: date made
content: 1955
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A sectioned sample of TAT1 - the initial TransAtlantic Telephone submarine cable. Label on piece reads: "First Transatlantic Telephone Cable / Deep Sea type / Submarine Cables Limited / Ocean Works, Eirth, 1955/6". Old display label reads: "Piece of the first Trans-Atlantic Telephone cable made in 1955 and laid down in 1956 by the M. S. Monarch. Made in Great Britain and project a joint one between Great Britain Post Office and U. S. American Telephone & Telegraph Company."
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-8561
label: accession number
content: 323571
label: catalog number
content: MHI-I-8561
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cable Section, Telephone, 1st Trans-Atlantic
label: Object Name
content: cable sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 3.4925 cm