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Porthcurno Telegraph Museum's Cable testing room houses a comprehensive collection of electrical test gear. This room also houses a local history display of objects and photographs describing life in past times in the parish of St Levan. The equipment in the cabinet behind you (with a picture above of a man in a white coat using the apparatus ) was Porthcurno Telegraph Station's main test set. Still in working order, it was used to locate faults and breaks in submarine cables. The pressure gauges that you can on the cables coming up through the floor into the cabinet by the door were used to record the carbon dioxide pressure in the land lines that ran between the tunnels where the instruments were and the cable house above the beach where the signals were initially received. The leather-bound ledgers in the display case to your left, were used at Company HQ to record the expenses of each individual cable station. |
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
Porthcurno played a pivotal role in the history of global telecommunications.
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Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Instrument room
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum's instrument room replicates a complete working telegraph cable circuit.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Workshop
Cable stations, especially those overseas, were required to make many of their own spare parts.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Show cases
Porthcurno's main display room documents the development of submarine telegraphy.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Escape stairs
These escape stairs were built to provide an emergency exit from the tunnels in the event of enemy attack.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Hilltop platform
This is the view you get when you climb to the top of the escape stairs.
