Telephone Cable
Production date
Circa 1953
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Object detail
Accession number
2008.2
Production period
Description
Submarine telephone cable cutaway sample. 18 layers are exposed. It appears to have an armoured and waxed coating. Mounted on a rimu base with small silver plaque "PT. RESOLUTION / DEVONPORT / LAID / 28. SEPT. 1953".
Brief History
This is a sample of the submarine telephone cable that was laid across the Waitematā Harbour from Point Resolution, Parnell to Devonport on 28 September 1953. It comes from a period of rapid expansion of the telephone network on the North Shore.
Previous telegraph and telephone cables had been laid across the Waitematā connecting the North Shore to Auckland since the 1890s. The first such cable was a single wire telephone cable laid from Ponsonby to Northcote around 1890. This cable connected to the other North Shore boroughs via overland cable. Subsequently a direct link was established between Parnell and Devonport with the laying of two telephone cables in 1921 and a third in 1938.
Previous telegraph and telephone cables had been laid across the Waitematā connecting the North Shore to Auckland since the 1890s. The first such cable was a single wire telephone cable laid from Ponsonby to Northcote around 1890. This cable connected to the other North Shore boroughs via overland cable. Subsequently a direct link was established between Parnell and Devonport with the laying of two telephone cables in 1921 and a third in 1938.
Marks
PT. RESOLUTION / DEVONPORT / LAID / 28. SEPT. 1953 Engraved
Other name
Telegraph cable
Credit Line
Circa 1953. Telephone Cable, 2008.2. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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