Have just finished editing James Graves technical autobiography. While working on it I discovered that Graves intended to write it up to end of May 1909 (when he retired). In fact he did not complete it and wound it up pre the arrival of the Commercial Cable Co. So I must assume that his title page "36 years in the telegraphic service" was created late on. Even this is not quite accurate as details beyond about 1884/5 are a bit sparse. So, anyway, I have added an Afterword which brings the story right up to end May 1909. I think that it is now in very good shape and it might be worth seeing if the IET might publish it.

Am giving a talk to the students in Computing Science tomorrow and have prepared a PowerPoint presentation "The miracle of the bits: how we got from 10^-3 to 10^9bps in 150 years".

While collecting material I have come across my "Chronological history of Edward Graves" and realise that I do not have it in electronic format. This will be rectified in the near future.

This is the first few lines of what hopefully will be a repository for much of the historical material that I hold in my collection. It is my plan to give titles and summaries here with copies of the original documents or edited transcription held elsewhere and available for download. As a first step I will list as much as I believe I have available at this point and will later give an abstract for each.

Telegraph cable papers which are ready or near ready
BlancheMackeyNotes
CableEconomics
Charge lmbalance on Atlantic Cables
Copper Trojan Horse
ltalian Cable History
James Graves Early Autobiographies
James Graves Technical Autobiography (editing in progress)
Prato Paper
Sceal-na-SceiIige
VaTechnology
The ballistic bridge model
Ocean telegraph cable model

Related to the second world war which are ready or near ready
Foynes
Fort Shannon
Hampden bomber
Italian Cable Intercept
Engineer's view of history of Meteorology (in preparation)

In future entries I will give outlines of the content of each of the above documents