
Steel Cable Section
A section of a steel cable, showing how different shapes of wire interlock to make up the complete cable.
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.