Cable Collection (page 5)

Group photo on Cable Ship John Pender, Gibraltar
Group photo of officers on board the Cable Ship John Pender of the Eastern Telegraph Company, Gibraltar, July 1898. The names are, back row L-R: Grigon, Collinson, Tomlinson, Koszelski

The Dartmouth Ferry, Devon
The Dartmouth Ferry (also known as the DartmouthKingswear Floating Bridge, a vehicular cable ferry), operating between Dartmouth and Kingswear, Devon Date: circa 1920s

Aero Cable, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA
Aero Cable (aerial cable car, built 1916) with passengers, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1920

Sixties winter fashions
Winter fashions from the 1960s. The model seated upright on the boat wears a cable-knit sweater in gold from Marshall and Snelgrove, brown, red and blue checked skirt by Slimma

Main lobby, Park Hotel, Warren, Ohio, USA
Main lobby of the Park Hotel, Warren, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1905

Illustration, A Song of the English, Deep Sea Cables
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Cable across River Ialomita, Snagov, Iolomita, Romania. Date: 1930s

Telephone Cable Repair
The intricate work of repairing and connecting telephone land lines. London, 1998 Date: 1998

Switzerland - Gasterin Thal, the Schilthorn
Coloured lantern slide of a view of the Schilthorn. The Schilthorn is a 2, 970 metre high summit of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss canton of Bern

Serving warmed beer, Berlin, Germany
A bartender serving a customer with a warmed glass of beer, using a new electrical device, in Berlin, Germany. Date: circa 1930

V-neck sweater, circa 1941
This dapper chap obligingly models a classic V-neck sweater in cable stitch, ideal for sports wear. Date: c. 1941

Cable car on Schauinsland mountain, Germany
Cable car on the Schauinsland mountain, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Schwarzwald (Black Forest), Germany

Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany
Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, a spa town in Upper Bavaria, Germany

Greetings card from Walzenhausen, Switzerland
Greetings card from Walzenhausen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland, with various views. Date: late 19th century

General view of Oakland, California, USA, with the First National Bank building in the foreground. circa 1910

Plaited cable pullover, circa 1941
A slim lady models a knitted plaited cable pullover. Date: c. 1941

Golden Gate Bridge cable, San Francisco, California, USA
A section of suspension cable used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge at Oakland, San Francisco, California, USA. Seventy thousand miles of wire were used in the finished cables

Ladies knitted cable pullover and jerkin, circa 1941
Two cheerful looking outdoors-types model a cable pullover and a sleeveless jerkin, made from the same knitting pattern. They hold on to a knotted woollen rope. Date: c. 1941

Cable car on a San Francisco street, California, USA. Date: 1950s

Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes
THE INFANT HERCULES Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), strangling the twin snakes of Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph with his new Wireless telegraph system

People taking part in a sports event, Germany

Market Street, San Francisco, California, USA, showing the Roos Brothers building and the Phelan building. Date: circa 1910

Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
Oakland Bay Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California, USA. circa 1936

Firefighters with fire engine and appliances, WW2
Firefighters (LFB and AFS) with a fire engine at HQ, showing how the various appliances and equipment are stored compactly, 16 July 1940. Date: 1940

LFB dual purpose appliance (back view)
London Fire Brigade dual purpose appliance (back view)

Close-up of LFB fire engine
Close-up of a London Fire Brigade fire engine

LFB Dennis fire engine (back view)
A London Fire Brigade Dennis fire engine (back view, showing the gallows)

Laying the shore end of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Foilhommerum, Isle of Valentia, Ireland. The first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable had been in 1858

Telegraph station in Hearts Content Bay, Newfoundland. The first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable had been in 1858

Scene at a fairground. Date: 20th century

Mine problem in North Sea by G. H. Davis
The mine problem in the North Sea. The mine layer at work, showing the way in which the mine is held below the water and how it is exploded by a passing ship

Mending Atlantic cables by G. H. Davis
Mending earthquake-torn Atlantic cables: methods and tools. How the Atlantic cables broken by the submarine earthquake (18 November) are repaired: perilous work in winter. Date: 1929

Manufacture of the Atlantic cable
The manufacture of the Atlantic submarine cable at Glass, Elliott and Co.s Works, East Greenwich, London Date: 1857

Two men in an outdoor setting, wearing slightly shabby, rumpled suits -- no doubt their working clothes. One wears a buttoned waistcoat, the other wears a knitted one

Sir George Elliot MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT MP, 1st Baronet (1814-1893) Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Businessman from Gateshead, North-East England

Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye, civil engineer and industrialist, manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Seen here in the late 1850s with the Great Eastern steamship before its launch to

Deep-sea diving suit, for salvage work on HMS M1 subrine
German deep-sea diving suit brought from Kiel for examining the lost submarine M1. On 21 November 1925, while on an exercise in the English Channel

Tokyo, Japan - Asakusa Branch of Matsuya Department Store (opened 1931) with the River Sumida in the foreground. Note the cable car ride on the store roof! Date: circa 1931

Kobe, Japan - View from Mt Maya
Kobe, Japan - Commanding view of the city and suburbs from the cable car on Mt Maya Date: 1935

Keage (Biwako) Incline / Cable Railway at Kyoto, Japan
Keage (Biwako) Incline, Kyoto, Japan - an old cable railway that was in use until 1948. Date: circa 1910s

Cable car station at the foot of Mount Rokko, Japan
Cable car station at the foot of Mount Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1930s

The Cable Ship Faraday in the mouth of the River Thames. Built by Siemens Bros. in circa 1874 and spent 50 years laying cable

Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Sugarloaf Mountain cable railway
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sugarloaf Mountain with cable railway. In the foreground is the (now-demolished) Military Academy building, which was located on Praia Vermelha. Date: circa 1905

Mount Hood Skiway - leaving the Upper Terminal - an aerial tramway which connected Government Camp and Timberline Lodge from 1951-1956 - Oregon, USA. It closed due to financial difficulties

Georgia, Tbilisi - Old Tramway
Tramway in Tsitsishvili (now Baratashvili) Street, Tbilisi, Georgia. Date: circa 1910s

Cover of Rolls Royce Aero Engines
Cover of Rolls-Royce Aero Engines and the Great Victory Aeroplanes by Boyd Cable. circa 1919. Date: 1919

Motor car cable duct-centre seat bay, London Transport, 1983 Date: 1983

A cable car in the Austrian mountains
View of a cable car somewhere in the Austrian mountains. Date: 1953

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