As my research encompasses the making of antennae out of copper wire, I have listed some of the interesting search links that were uncovered in a google search on history of copper wire (up to pg 35).

Brief History of Copper
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/copper/overview.php

Book Reference: Copper Wire and Electrical Conductors: The Shaping of a Technology, Blake-Coleman
http://www.amazon.com/Copper-Wire-Electrical-Conductors-Technology/dp/37...

History of the Atlantic Cable
http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Article/Origins/

The Time Taken Up By Cerebral Operations.
James McKeen Cattell (1886a)
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Cattell/Time/part1-2.htm

Coke Can Wrapped in Copper Wire in the Microwave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J60cpg6UJE&feature=related

Antique Spectacles
http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/TV_TL_COMP_1.html

History of Plumbing in America
http://www.plumbingworld.com/historyamerica.html

Poison Hand Darted Harpoons and Lances
http://www.whalecraft.net/Poison_Irons.html

History of Public Address
http://www.historyofpa.co.uk/pages/cw_crystal.htm

Braille
http://www.brailleplus.net/braille-articles/braille-history.htm

Adventures in Cybersound: 2500 Years of Communications History
http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/TV_TL_COMP_1.html

Judicial Hanging in Britain
http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html