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
This section of German telegraph cable shows the cut made by the British on the 4th August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. This was common practice at the beginning of the world wars as cutting cables immediately compromised the communications of the enemy.