Sodium nitrate substituted for Iceland spar

• Book ID: 104117360
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1911
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 172
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(11)90420-7

✦ Synopsis

New Telegraph Cable Between England and Norway. (Elect. Eng., vii, I4.)---A new cable has been laid between Newbiggin in Northumberland, and Arendal in Norway. This is worked by the Great Northern Telegraph Co., for both governments in a circuit from Newcastle to Christiania. The total length is 411 nautical miles. For four nautical miles at the Arendal end the cable is double armored; 66 nautical miles are light deep sea cables, and 341 heavy deep sea cable. The insulation is of gutta-percha.