Submarine telegraphs; their history, construction, and working. Founded in part on Wèunschendorff's 'Traitâe de tâelegraphie sous-marine' and compiled from authoritative and exclusive sources (1898)
Bright, Charles, 1863-1937 · London, C. Lockwood and son · leaf 584
s intended to take an endless rope, and by that means, ^drives similar draw-gear, placed, when necessary, immediately above the iron tank (in a direct line with the "cabling" machine) into which the cable is to be stored. Rate of Cable Manufacture. — The iron heathing wires having a considerably… … l'"iG. 113. very much the reverse, the rate being about as i to 5 in favour of the stranding of the conductor. With such a long lay as the larger iron wires are given, the point which limits the speed at which the wires can be laid up is the nrechanical difficulty already alluded to, involved…
Cables, Submarine
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