After the war, Hawkins began work on an important project, a new and improved insulation for telephone cables.
Everybody has a story like that: the volunteer who drove in the snow to find a missing telephone cable.
The very first transatlantic telephone cable went operational in 1956.
But he could still hear the singing noise of the transcontinental telephone cables.
Except for having to put up with a telephone cable running across the room, starting up was a snap.
The telephone cable generally exits the plug at the bottom.
Early in the film, a literal image of telephone cable is enough to question what it means for these characters to communicate.
There were open fields on either side, a telephone cable stitching the air high overhead.
It's as well there's two miles of telephone cable between us, because if he could reach me he'd wrap it round my neck.
One round severed several large telephone cables, the most significant damage the Japanese caused.