Sentence examples for lay the cable from inspiring English sources

At Smith's request, Cornell created a plow that would both dig the trench and lay the cable.

In the summer of 1843, on his second trip to Maine, Cornell visited Smith's office and found him struggling to design a machine to lay the cable underground.

Morse came to Maine for a demonstration of the machine, approved it, and hired Cornell to lay the cable for the test line.

The developer faced a final deadline this week to procure the services of the companies that would make and lay the cable under the river, Mr. Stern said.

In deep water, cable-laying ships drag a sled along the bottom to dig a trough in which to lay the cable.

Easier, perhaps, but not inevitable for the project, which proposes to lay the cable under the New York State Thruway in an effort to limit opposition by private landowners.

We got some funding and drew up a plan for how to lay the cables: £9.5m is the lowest quote so far.

The cost of putting a cable under water can be lower than burying cables on land, because workers can lay the cables from giant reels, allowing stretches of more than a mile with no splices.

Last month, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government agreed to fund a multimillion-dollar undersea communications cable linking the Solomon Islands with Australia, effectively blocking Huawei's plan to lay the cables for the island nation.

Fibre-optic networks can be run like any other public infrastructure: government, municipalities or utilities lay the cables and let private firms compete to offer services, just as public roadways are used by private logistics firms.

(Though it isn't possible very often – cable operators who lay the original cable in the US have local monopolies they can control or sell, rather than being forced to lease their networks to competitors at cost, as is the case in the UK).