History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraphy: German Cable Companies - Felten and Guilleaume

Glover, Bill (2021-10-27). History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraphy: German Cable Companies - Felten and Guilleaume.

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Abstract: As in England, the early manufacturers of submarine cables were wire rope makers who embraced the new industry. Felten and Guilleaume, a firm of wire rope makers established in Cologne in 1823, were one such company who decided to branch out into the submarine cable industry. The owner of the Kuper Wire Rope Company, whose factory was on the Surrey Canal at Camberwell, London, was a close friend of Theodor, one of the three Guilleaume brothers involved in the company. Kuper undertook part of the armouring of the 1851 Cross Channel cable being sub-contracted by R.S. Newall and Company. Using the experience gained in this work the two devised a successful method of armouring gutta percha core produced by the Gutta Percha Company.