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In 1902, the Bamfield cable station was constructed as the western terminus of a worldwide undersea telegraph cable called by some the All Red Line as it passed only through countries and territories controlled by the British Empire, which were coloured red on the map.
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1902 and Bamfield
In 1902 the Colonia, a newly built cable vessel, began laying the 8000 tonnes of cable needed to complete the Bamfield, Canada, to Fanning Island section of the cable.
In 1902, Bamfield became the North America terminus of the All Red Line ’ s Pacific submarine cable, which spanned the globe linking the British Empire.
1902 and cable
* 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
In 1902 Krarup both wrote his paper on this subject and saw the installation of the first cable between Helsingør ( Denmark ) and Helsingborg ( Sweden ).
Not content to leave well enough alone, he tirelessly advocated the construction of a submarine telegraph cable connecting all of the British Empire, the All Red Line, which was completed in 1902.
The cable was completed on October 31, 1902, finishing the All Red Line.
The invention of the Bowden cable has been popularly attributed to Sir Frank Bowden, founder and owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company who, circa 1902, was reputed to have started replacing the rigid rods used for brakes with a flexible wound cable.
An unpublished typescript exists in the archives of the National Motor Museum, written by the son of one of Bowden's employees that attempts to claim the invention of the cable for his father to the point of suggesting that it was never applied to bicycles before 1902.
British National Archives In this narrative a flexible cable brake for cycles was separately ' invented ' by George Frederick Larkin, a skilled automobile and motorcycle engineer, who patented his design in 1902.
George Larkin is known for his invention of the flexible cable brake for cycles, which was patented in 1902.
The Bowden Mechanism was not developed in connection with a cycle brake as there is no record of the cable having been associated with the cycle industry until 1902, when George Larkin's invention was patented.
He played it successfully against Marshall in a 1902 cable match between England and the United States, the game beginning 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. e3 Ne4.
Marshall-Atkins, USA v. England cable match 1902 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. e3 Ne4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. Nxe4 dxe4 9. Nd2 f5 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O e5 12. d5?
Also in 1902 Kennelly was given the entire engineering charge of the expedition which laid Mexican submarine cables on the route Vera Cruz-Frontera-Campeche ; he also served as inspector for the Mexican Government during the manufacture of the cable.
The first section of cable was laid in 1902 by the cableship Silvertown from Ocean Beach, adjacent to the famous Cliff House in San Francisco to Honolulu.
Dignitaries marched across the bridge carrying the 45-star American flag used in a game of capture the flag played by workers after the placement of the final cable in June 1902.
Originally patented by a German, Otto Schulze on 7 October 1902, it uses a rotating flexible cable usually driven by gearing linked to the output of the vehicle's transmission.
From 1902 to 1913, the former U. S. Weather Bureau maintained a weather station on the southeast island, which was connected with the mainland by cable.
1902 and station
The U-Bahn arrived first, from the south ; begun on 10 September 1896, it opened on 18 February 1902, with a new and better sited station being provided on 29 September 1907, and the line itself being extended north and east on 1 October 1908.
** 1896, First report of the station on adulterated food products ; 1897 ; 1898 ; 1899 ; 1900 ; 1901 ; 1902 ; 1903 ; 1904 ; 1905 ; 1906 ; 1907: Food, Food, Drugs ; 1908: Not located ; 1909: Not located ; 1910: Not located ; 1911: Food, Drugs
Kalisz railway station was built in 1902 as the destination of the Warsaw – Kalisz Railway.
* The former St Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church of England on Thurlow Park Road ( technically this is in West Dulwich because it has an SE21 postcode )-The church, recognisable by its Green steeple, was built in 1902 and is located a few minutes walk from Tulse Hill station.
A restored 1902 train station.
In 1902, the Soo Line Railroad determined another station was needed between Glenwood and Alexandria.
By 1902, a post office was established, and in 1906, a station was added to the Minneapolis and Rainy River Railway.
The Livingston Depot, built in 1902 after two predecessors, is a restored rail station that today houses a railroad museum from approximately May through September.
Upon the station burning down in a 1902 fire, a new one was built the next year.
Main Street, sometime between 1902 and 1909On April 25, 1868 the Long Island Railroad opened a station within the village of Northport.
When the Katy Railroad built its track northwest of town in 1902, the townspeople relocated to be nearer the Wann railroad station.
Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station.
The year 1902 was also the date of Youngwood's railroad station, which still stands on Depot Street.
Former railroad station ( 1902 ), now a museum
In 1902 the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway set up a station in the town, calling it " Wheeler " like the county, but changing it to the original name of Shamrock in 1903, which prompted the reopening of the Shamrock post office.
The first gas station was open in 1902 by Donovan Ranta.
With the development of other rail lines the Newmarket terminus was replaced by the present through station in 1902 ; it was used as a goods station until 1967 and demolished in 1980.
By October 1902, American forces had established more or less permanent quarters near the Angeles railroad station in an area of the town known as Talimundoc ( now the barangay of Lourdes Sur ).
The Dudden Hill station on the line closed for passengers in 1902, but the line still carried freight.
When Mulock learned this, he immediately negotiated an agreement with Marconi for him to set up his North American radio station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, where the first transatlantic message from North America was sent on December 17, 1902.
A telegraph station followed in 1902, and an Episcopal mission in 1909.
The town hall and Schaerbeek railway station were built in 1887 and 1902, respectively.
The original London Necropolis station ( near Waterloo ) was relocated in 1902, but its successor was demolished after suffering bomb damage during World War II.
On January 25, 1902, a weather station recorded-41 ° C, the lowest temperature in Japanese history.
1.406 seconds.