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Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Annotated display photograph for sectioned submerged repeater for TAT-1 the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable,
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sectioned submerged repeater for TAT-1 the first transatlantic telephone cable, designed at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, made by Standard Telephones and Cables Limited, Woolwich, London, England, 1956
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Science Museum: Information Age Gallery: Exchange
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Details
- Category:
- Telecommunications
- Object Number:
- 1958-201
- Materials:
- perspex, steel (metal), wood (unidentified)
- Measurements:
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overall (stands): 180 mm x 60 mm x 170 mm,
overall (repeater): 3560 mm x 280 mm diameter, 500 kg
- type:
- amplifier
- taxonomy:
-
- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- credit:
- Donated by BT Heritage and Archives
- copyright:
- BT Heritage and Archives
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