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Information Age Gallery: Cable

The telegraph gave rise to the first global communication network, radically shrinking our world. Explore the objects on display in the Information Age Gallery and discover the ways cable still plays a vital role in an increasingly wireless world.

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Stud field regulator, 1900-1950 1900-1950 'MPB' call sign plaque, 1900-1950 1900-1950 Lucas grapnel, 1888-1960 1888-1960 Coaxial cable sample, 1948-1967 1948-1967 Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858 1858 Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858 1858-03-02 Guard lamps on wooden board, 1900-950 1900-1950 Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866 1865-1866 Ashtray and matchbox holder advertising the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1901-1929 1901-1929 'Leiber's Five Letter American Telegraph Code', book issued 1915 1915 Willis world clock, 1929-1935 1929-1935 Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858 1858 Atlantic Telegraph Cable Souvenir, 1873 1873-1920 Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851 1851 Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858 1857-1858 Trough battery, 1801-1838 1801-1838 Cable grappling illustration, 1874-1924 1874-1924 Atlantic cable specimen, 1865 1865 Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858 1857-1858 Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858 1857-1858 Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866 1866 Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817 1810-1817 Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837 1837 Moving magnet galvanometer with dial inscribed "Greenwich Mean Time", 1843-1897 1843-1897 Flag from Cable Ship 'Faraday' (sunk 1941), 1923-1941 1923-1941 Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901 1901 High frequency sliding inductance on wood base, 1900-1950 1900-1950 Wooden pillar insulators, 1900-1950 1900-1950 Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860 1855-1860 Thirty pair PVC insulated and sheathed armoured cable, 1933-1969 1933-1969 Copper busbars and ebonite insulators, 1900-1950 1900-1950 Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end, 1894-1904 1894-1904 Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894 1894 Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880 1872-1880 Filings coherer, glass tube almost of taper shape, 1894-1904 1894-1904 Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477 1895-1910 Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910 1900-1910 Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910 1900-1910 Filings coherer, glass tube containing powdered copper, bulb at one end, 1894-1904 1894-1904 Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860 1840-1860 Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889 1880-1889 Bright's bell telegraph, 1855 1855 Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856 1856 Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894 1890-1894 Filings coherer, Lodge pattern with two wires inserted into bulb at one end, 1894-1904 1894-1904 Rotary convertor, 1900-1950 1900-1950 De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907 1902-1907 Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896 1890-1896 Coherer, narrow-bore glass tube, 1894-1904 1894-1904 Polythene insulated copper conductor cable, 1939-1969 1939-1969

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