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> SIR THOMAS CALLENDER ELECTRIC CABLE PIONEER (Received December 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Doc. 3 Tho death is announced of Sir Thomas Octavius Callonder. Sir Thonuis Callender was known as "tho cable king." Ho was bprn in April, 1855. Fifty-six years ago ho worked with his father in a tiny business in Leadenhall Street, London. In 1932 he retired as managing director of the company that bears his name. He was tho first man to lay electric cables in the Strand, in 1882. Ho was associated with tho first electric light installations on various British ships. Hatfield House, Lord Salisbury's home, shared with Craigside, Lord Kelvin's borne, the distinction of being the first big country houses to bo lit by electricity. Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, King's College, Cambridge, and a host of other places followed later on. Sir Thomas was also associated with tho installation of tho first electrical haulago system in a British colliery used for replacing pit pomes That was at Abercanaid Colliery, Merthyr, in 1891.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23212, 5 December 1938, Page 12
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168OBITUARY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23212, 5 December 1938, Page 12
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