Excerpt from Notes on Laying, Repairing, Operating, and Testing Submarine Cables: U. S. Signal Corps
The Signal Corps has of late years had much to do with this branch of telegraph engineering. The special technical character of the work is such that if it were attempted to describe cable laying from a cable ship it would be impracticable to give much idea of it in the brief way necessary here.
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