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I was reading an old telecom manual and found out the first coaxial cable for TV was laid in 1949
I was cleaning out my work van last week and found this old, beat-up manual from the 80s. I flipped through it and there was a small section on the history of the stuff we use. It said the first big coaxial cable run for TV signals was put in the ground in 1949, somewhere in Pennsylvania. I always figured it was way later than that, like the 60s or something. It's wild to think we're still running cable on ideas that old. What's the oldest piece of tech or method you guys still come across on the job?
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oliviabennett6mo ago
Honestly blows my mind that we still trust copper from 1949 to stream 4K.
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john6486mo ago
That's not too surprising really. The basic idea for a lot of this stuff is ancient. We still use knob and tube wiring in some old houses... just patched over a hundred times.
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