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Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.
Staff in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno
Staff (Richard Angove with Mr Elms and Mr Gibbens) in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno
Shore-end of Cable being landed at Porthcurno
The shore-end of a cable being landed at Porthcurno (Cable & Wireless), shown with line of men digging trench on shore.
Shore-end of Cable being floated in on Drums at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.
Shore-end of a cable being floated in on drums at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno. Ship in the distance and three men on the shore, two of whom are digging.
Shore-end of C & W Cable at Jesselton Borneo
During the second week in May, CS Recorder (3,349 tons) laid shore-ends at Jesselton of the Jesselton - Singapore section of the South East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable (SEACOM).
This picture shows: passing the Jesselton-Singapore shore end…
This picture shows: passing the Jesselton-Singapore shore end…
Sea Plow Cutting Trench for Cable
The Cable & Wireless sea plow at work cutting a trench for the cable on the seabed.
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Richard Angove at Cable & Wireless Supervisor's Desk
Richard Angove sitting at Supervisor's Desk at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno, surrounded by equipment.
Richard Angove at Cable & Wireless Cable Chain Countrol Console
Richard Angove pictured at Porthcurno cable station (Cable & Wireless). This is a view of the cable chain control console. Teleprinters (Creed 75s), tape-readers and Creed Autos for monitoring purposes are centrally situated. Cable relay equipment is…
R Angove at C & W Test Bench on Maintenance
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.
Porthcurno Cable Station
Operating C & W Relay Equipment. General view of cable relay equipment when moved into new tunnels early in WW2. This view shows half the room, a similar length lies behind the camera. The lamps on the wall (red homewards and green outwards) are…
Poldhu Wireless Station 300ft Masts & Huts
DUPLICATE OF COMM 6.001
General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber masts dominated the Lizard Peninsula for half a century and could be seen from Land's End to the Camborne-Redruth area. They were dismantled in the late 1930s…
General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber masts dominated the Lizard Peninsula for half a century and could be seen from Land's End to the Camborne-Redruth area. They were dismantled in the late 1930s…
Operator Servicing Equipment
An operator servicing the equipment at Cable & Wireless.
Marconi Signal Station at Poldhu Transmitter
DUPLICATE OF COMM 6.005
View from Porthcurno of Marconi Signal Station at Poldhu Transmitter on the Lizard Peninsula, from where Eastern Telegraph Co conducted industrial espionage.
General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber…
View from Porthcurno of Marconi Signal Station at Poldhu Transmitter on the Lizard Peninsula, from where Eastern Telegraph Co conducted industrial espionage.
General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber…
London Trunk Exchange 1916
Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)
Loading Cable on CS Mercury
This photograph shows a man loading cable in one of the three tanks on C.S. Mercury.
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Cable & Wireless Copyright
K E Finney adjusting C & W Equipment
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.
Holborn Manual Exchange 1904
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)
Goonhilly Earth Station
General view of Goonhilly Earth Station taken from the road.
Final Splice of Hong Kong-Gwam C&W cable Mercury
The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965.
This photograph shows the final splice on…
This photograph shows the final splice on…