Specimen of ocean cable - Key West-Havana
date: label: date made
content: 1899
name: label: Maker
content: Western Union Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A submarine communications cable with five stranded copper wires, rubber insulated, surrounded by two layers of jute insulation and twelve steel armor wires. Bound with string. Oval cross-section that may be due to use or storage. Tag reads: "B-12/5-160/166, Ex. #3-KZ-HVA. Repair #13, 1949. Picked up by Cable Schooner Western Union. Laid by C.S. Dacia, Oct., 1899."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Western Union catalog card #25-62 reads: "Piece from Key West-Havana cable laid Oct. 1899 by C.S. DACIA. Picked up May 1949 by Cable Schooner WESTERN UNION. ... Received from cable lab. March 1961."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Western Union Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.331475
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: collector/donor number
content: 25-62
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: catalog number
content: 331475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cable, Submarine
label: Object Name
content: cable sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 1 in; 48.26 cm x 2.54 cm