William Thomas Henley

William Thomas Henley (1814–1882) was a pioneer in the manufacture of telegraph cables. He designed and built a wire covering machine which is now in the London Science Museum.

He set up as a submarine cable maker in 1857 and by 1859 he had his own factory beside the Thames at North Woolwich. He went on to manufacture the shore ends of the second Transatlantic cable in 1865.

W. T. Henley Ltd. was acquired by AEI in 1959, and later became part of GEC following its takeover of AEI in 1967. The company was sold to TT electronics in 1997, and remains in business to this day producing cable accessories, insulators and low voltage fuse gear in Belvedere, after many years in Northfleet.

References

Dictionary of National Biography, Henley, William Thomas (1813?–1882), telegraphic engineer, by Gordon Goodwin. Published 1891.

External links

W T Henley Ltd – company history

General Electric Company plc

Former subsidiaries and divisions

Former joint ventures

Predecessors and acquisitions

Successors

Products

Computers	GEC 2050 GEC 4000 series GEC Series 63 OS4000

Locomotives	British Rail Class 91 GEC Stephenson locomotive South African Class 4E South African Class 9E, Series 1 South African Class 9E, Series 2 South African Class 10E1, Series 1 South African Class 10E1, Series 2

People

Other

GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory

Category

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 17, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.