Instructions for use
Select an object to view from the list below. To rotate either click on the rotate icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the image or click and drag within the object window.
Section of Dover to Calais cable, 1851
Radio coherer-detector, c. 1901
Cable code key
Globe Ashtray
Crystal Detector
Baby Turtle
Grapnel
Wheatstone auto-transmitter, late 19th century
Section of deep sea cable
A section of the first ever international telegraph cable to actually work, laid in 1851. This was a major milestone in the development of world communications and this achievement led to longer and longer cables being laid under the seas of the world.