box of cable samples showing jointing techniques
name: label: maker
content: Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A wooden tray with locking, hinged lid containing thirteen slots holding sixteen cable samples (one missing). Intended to show methods of jointing cables. Copper cables insulated with plastic. The lock was disassembled to gain access since the key was missing. Sheet inside lid reads in part: "Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. / Method of Jointing / Willoughby & Smith's Patent Core".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Standard Telephone & Cables, Ltd.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.335436.03
label: accession number
content: 322605
label: catalog number
content: 335436.03
label: collector/donor number
content: CP.67A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cable samples
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 20 1/4 in x 10 in; 4.445 cm x 51.435 cm x 25.4 cm