Author: McIntosh, Malcolm & Thomas, Ruth; editors:
Title: Cable & Wireless [Global Companies in the Twentieth Century: Selected Archival Histories: Volume V]
Description: London / New York, Routledge, (2001). orig.cloth. 30x21cm, xliv, (199) pp, Series: Global Companies in the Twentieth Century: Selected Archival Histories. Volume V.. Textual photos & tables.. Binding corners bumped. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 199 unpaginated pages of facsimile archival documents detailing the history of the British firm 'Cable & Wireless'. Contents: Cartoon: From 'Punch' magazine. The District Telegraph. Invaluable to the Man of Business: Company origins (1864); Letter: From the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Ltd, to Captain Moriarty, inviting him, as a ' first class man', to act as navigator on the Great Eastern and assist in the great work of laying the Atlantic cable (7 May 1865); Letter: From Captain Moriarty to Rear Admiral Eden, accepting the invitation to act as navigator: Atlantic cable (11 May 1865); Advertisement: Placed by The Transatlantic Steam Ship Company, advertising sale of shares: Corporate growth (20 July 1865); Manuscripts:The West India and Panama Tel Co Ltd. Original manuscript account of the history of the early days of the company: Company history (1869-93); Postcard: Picture of the landing of the first telegraph cable from England to India (Bombay) at Porthcurno in Cornwall: Overseas development (1870); Telegraph Cable: From Captain Moriarty to the Editor of the Standard, regarding the laying of the Atlantic cable. Wheras once such a task was seen as almost akin to raising a ladder to the moon, it is now the case that 'every cheapjohn company which pleases to make another cable to lay at the side of it is at liberty to do so': Atlantic cable (8March 1870); Mortgage Debenture: Prospectus and details of mortgage debentures of The African Direct Telegraph Company Ltd: Corporate growth (1 July 1886) ...

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry, British Industries, Archives Archival, Business History, Great Britain, Cable & Wireless, , ,