Telegraph Museum Taiping

    Malaysia  2018.07.16

    In issue: Stamp(s): 3    Souvenir sheet(s): 1   

    Printing: Litography on posphor gummed paper

    Issued in: sheets of 20 (4*5) stamps each

  • Perforation type: 14x14

    Subject:

    60 sen. Submarine cable in the section, a branch of the gutta-perplex plant Palaquium gutta and millstones for grinding the gutta-percha resin.

    Additional:

    The Communication Network was expanded even more during the 1870s.
    Malaysia began communicating directly with Britain and Madras through undersea telegraph lines.
    What was fascinating is that the undersea cables was invented in 1845 using the 1845 tree extract was processed with a Gutta Percha, which is a type of rubber made from the Nyatoh Taban Merah Tree which originates from Tanah Melayu.

    Discover the extraction process tree extract was processed with a 5-tonne Mill Stone that is displayed in the museum landscape.