
Power Cable Explosive Sample
A sample from Nobel’s Explosives, of an underwater electrical power cable, cut by shaped-charge explosive.
A sample from Nobel’s Explosives, of an underwater electrical power cable, cut by shaped-charge explosive.
A section of 33kV armoured electricity cable, for undesea power transmission, made by W T Glover & Co., Ltd.
A sample of a composite cable, made of steel and synthetic strands – origin unknown but perhaps intended for mining hoists.
A section of a steel cable, showing how different shapes of wire interlock to make up the complete cable.
A section of the 1865 transatlantic telegraph cable, laid by Brunel’s Great Britain steamship – the cable snapped in mid-Atlantic, but the end was recovered and spliced into a new cable in 1866.