The year is 1967. Your newly completed home has been wired with state-of-the-art television distribution - a black cable that has an inner conductor surrounded by a tubular insulating layer, then surrounded by a tubular conducting shield. This amazing product will deliver television signal from the antenna on your roof to any TV in the house! Coaxial cable was invented by English engineer and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, who patented the design in 1880.