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This photograph shows the complex nature of the aerial at Goonhilly Earth Station. In the centre of the picture can been seen one of the two large concrete counterbalancing weights. Each aerial can be moved in any direction on the horizontal plane…

Names on the back:
Summerull, Firmin, Watkins, Maner, ?, Bartlett,
Cleavor, Barlow, Bentley
Talbot, Mockett, Purvis, Hanson, Stevenson

A blurry photo of a piece of equipment used at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.

Potential Cable & Wireless radio operators training at the Marconi Radio School, Marconi House, Strand, London in 1912. Students sitting at desks, writing and wearing headphones.

(2 copies of photo)

Typical Morse sounder and single-current key as used by the GPO, railway companies, ship-shore and coastguard stations from the 1880s to 1930s. Note, the metal (usually sheet brass) "reflector" to localise the signal.

Cable & Wireless granite pyramid marking the 1880 cable landing.

Four Cable & Wireless men working on the beach.

CABLE AND WIRELESS BUILDINGS

PRINT OF PART OF SCAPE 8.062

Cable & Wireless telegraph form.

Spectators on the cliffs watching Cable & Wireless preparations for the cable landing on Porthcurno Beach. Bulldozers are pictured on the beach.

Britains Ocean Telegraph Cables fan out into the Atlantic from the sandy beach of Porthcurno, a Cornish cove near Land's End. These cables, which are linked with the 155,000-mile network owned by Cable & Wireless Ltd., are operated from the company's…

Richard Angove at the test bench at Cable & Wireless doing regular maintenance work (routining) on the synchroniser. Drive relays are shown behind two clock controls at the top left of the photograph. The bottom of the clock can be seen between them.

Engineer Mr K.E. Finney adjusting the balance on Porgibthree (the No. 3 cable between Porthcurno and Gibraltar). The light reflected from the mirror on the fork coil records the duplex balance disturbance on the scale above.

Mr R.G. Bell at the 110v motor generator change-over panel. Pictured behind him is 110v mgs, with 10v mgs nearest the camera. On his left is a 110v distribution board. On his right are the main supply switches and battery switchgear. On the extreme…