cable: Quick Facts

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Cutaway illustrations of a multipair cable and a coaxial cable show internal structures, including twisted pairs and shielding, with arrows indicating current flow and labeled electric and magnetic fields.

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Topics

undersea cable underground cable communication cable power cable fiber-optic cable transatlantic cable multipair cable coaxial cable flexible coaxial cable rigid coaxial cable antenna transducer waveguide electric circuit electrode microelectromechanical system speech recognition solid-state device

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Giovanni Battista Pirelli

Italian industrialist