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Slide__PCTskKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_footer=The figure at this page and the following gallery of historical photos showing built-up of the "Rhineland cable" originate from the Siemens Archive.
Slide__PCTskKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=The "Rhineland cable", ...<p></p>
Slide__PCTskKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_subTitle=... a 600 kilometres long lelephone-line between Berlin and Cologne, becomes the first 'pupinized' long-range telephone connection, when Siemens & Halske is the first firm to take up Pupin's proposal of 1899 and to successfully test the Pupin coil - which considerably improves the language understandability at the same time. <p></p> <p>Started in 1912 with the segment Berlin-Magdeburg (Figure\: conferring of contract), the "Rhineland cable" is completed in 1921 and presents itself as the precursor of the european telephone network.</p>