cable work
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Army, reporting the results of recent experiments in ocean cable work, stated that a universal automatic telegraph transmitter, applicable to radio, land lines and submarine cables, has been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ha continued to improve this apparatus and at the same time busied himself with a recording instrument to be used for cable work.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg
Another comparison method much used in submarine cable work is the method of mixtures, originally due to Lord Kelvin and usually called Thomson and Gott’s method.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
It is employed in Europe and in submarine cable work.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
It was to supply such a desideratum for cable work that Sir William Thomson invented the siphon recorder, his second important contribution to the province of practical telegraphy.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John
