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Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.
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.
Morse Key & Operator. Galvanometer
Ladies operating a single-current Morse key. Note the 'sounder' backed by a reflecting device to localise the sound. In front of the key can be seen instruments for adjusting the signals and a galvanometer which indicates the presence or otherwise of…
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…
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…
Dish Aerial at Goonhilly Earth Station
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…
Dish Aerial at Goonhilly Earth Station
TWO COPIES OF PHOTO
One of seven dishes at Goodhilly. It is tuned to a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. Its surface is of polished aluminium. Signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripled which can be seen built onto and…
One of seven dishes at Goodhilly. It is tuned to a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. Its surface is of polished aluminium. Signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripled which can be seen built onto and…
Dish Aerial at Goonhilly
This dish is 90-feet across and is 'locked' onto a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. The surface of the dish is polished aluminium. The faint signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripod can be seen built onto the dish.
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Control Console & Teleprinters Relay Room at Porthcurno Cable Station
A general view of the main cable relay equipment room at Porthcurno Cable Station, looking west and showing the control consul, monitoring teleprinters, etc. in the foreground.
Cable & Wireless Telegram Form
Cable & Wireless telegraph form
Cable & Wireless Equipment
A blurry photo of a piece of equipment used at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.
Cable & Wireless Cable Chain Relay Comm. & Test Equipment
Porthcurno cable station (Cable & Wireless). View of cable chain relay equipment with commutation panels and test equipment. In the foreground, one 'wing' of the control console can be seen (bottom right) with FMVM panels in the centre rear. This…
C&W Repeater entering the Water from C S 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 a repeater entering the…