Coiling Collection

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London. The 1, 250 tons of telegraphic cable being laid out in five coils to go on-board the H.M.S

Fishermen and fishing boats, probably St Ives Cornwall
19th century vintage photograph: coiling the warp, fishermen and fishing boats, probably St Ives Cornwall

Young cabin boy sailor sorting out ropes
Young cabin boy sailor tidies up the ropes on the deck of a large ship. Date: circa 1890s

Masai young women adjusting iron wire
Three young Masai women sitting on the floor, while one of them gets her ornamental coil rings adjusted on her leg

Naja haje haje, Egyptian cobra
An Egyptian cobra emerging from a ceramic urn and coiling into its characteristic aggressive hissing stance

Woman working in a rope works, 1916
Photograph showing a woman working in a munition, steel and rope works, Britain, 1916. This photograph shows her supervising the coiling of wire rope onto a large drum

Coiling of the Atlantic telegraph cable
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

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