Pacific Cable Board
Other Business Names:
- Cable & Wireless Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Telecommunication & postal services
Telecommunication services
Notes:
Established in 1901 to oversee the establishment and subsequent management of the first transpacific submarine telegraph cable linking Canada and Australasia which effectively completed a worldwide telegraph network linking the British Empire. Funded by the British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand governments who were owners. Opened 1902. The cable was purchased and subsequently managed by Cable & Wireless Ltd on the latter's formation in 1928
Publications:
- Far Eastern Telegraphs. The history of telegraphic communications between the Far East, Europe and America before the First World War by Ahvenainen, Jorma
- Girdle Round the Earth. The story of Cable & Wireless and its predecessors to mark the group's jubilee, 1929-1979 by Barty-King, Hugh
- Historical Notes on the Pacific Cable Board by Baglehole, K C
- Imperial dreams and national realities. Britain, Canada and the struggle for a Pacific telegraph cable, 1879-1902 by Boyce, Robert
- The Pacific Cable. A link in the telegraphic communications of the British Empire by Koerper, Philip E
- The Tie that Binds. The Pacific Cable and the men who worked it by McDonald, Lynne
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Cable & Wireless Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Telecommunication & postal services Telecommunication services
Notes:
Established in 1901 to oversee the establishment and subsequent management of the first transpacific submarine telegraph cable linking Canada and Australasia which effectively completed a worldwide telegraph network linking the British Empire. Funded by the British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand governments who were owners. Opened 1902. The cable was purchased and subsequently managed by Cable & Wireless Ltd on the latter's formation in 1928Publications:
- Far Eastern Telegraphs. The history of telegraphic communications between the Far East, Europe and America before the First World War by Ahvenainen, Jorma
- Girdle Round the Earth. The story of Cable & Wireless and its predecessors to mark the group's jubilee, 1929-1979 by Barty-King, Hugh
- Historical Notes on the Pacific Cable Board by Baglehole, K C
- Imperial dreams and national realities. Britain, Canada and the struggle for a Pacific telegraph cable, 1879-1902 by Boyce, Robert
- The Pacific Cable. A link in the telegraphic communications of the British Empire by Koerper, Philip E
- The Tie that Binds. The Pacific Cable and the men who worked it by McDonald, Lynne