Twenty To The Mile The Overland Telegraph Line

Author : Derek Pugh
Publisher : Derek Pugh
ISBN 13 : 0645737429
Total Pages : 277 pages
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Download or read book Twenty to the Mile written by Derek Pugh and published by Derek Pugh. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia. In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at '20 to the mile', it was a mammoth undertaking but in October 1872, Adelaide was finally linked to London. The Overland Telegraph Line crossed Aboriginal lands first seen by John McDouall Stuart just 10 years before. Messages which previously took weeks to cross the country now took hours. Passing through eleven new repeater stations and the remotest parts of Australia, the line joined the vast global telegraph network, and a new era was ushered in. Each station held a staff of six. They became centres of white civilization and the cattle or sheep industry and, in many places, the Aborigines were displaced. The unique stories of how men and women lived and/or died on the line range from heroic through desperate to tragic, but they remain an indelible part of Australia's history. '...a book written with heart and determination ... a lasting tribute to the inventiveness and tenacity of the people behind the planning, building and execution of the Overland Telegraph - a true nation building endeavour.' - His Excellency, The Honourable Hieu Van Le, AC.

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Download or read book Overland Telegraph Line (S.A. and N.T.). written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : South Australia. Parliament
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Total Pages : 770 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George William Symes
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ISBN 13 : 9780959956702
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Overland Telegraph Line, 1870-1872 written by George William Symes and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound volume of photocopied notes, instructions, extracts from reports, and stories concerning the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line.

Author : George E. Hyde
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806174773
Total Pages : 433 pages
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Download or read book Life of George Bent written by George E. Hyde and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's death in 1918, is the source of the narrative here published, the narrator being Bent himself. Almost ninety years have elapsed since the day in 1930 when Mr. Hyde found it impossible to market the finished manuscript of the Bent life down to 1866. (The Depression had set in some months before.) He accordingly sold that portion of the manuscript to the Denver Public Library, retaining his working copy, which carries down to 1875. The account therefore embraces the most stirring period, not only of Bent's own life, but of life on the Plains and into the Rockies. It has never before been published. It is not often that an eyewitness of great events in the West tells his own story. But Bent's narrative, aside from the extent of its chronology (1826 to 1875), has very special significance as an inside view of Cheyenne life and action after the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, which cost so many of the lives of Bent's friends and relatives. It is hardly probable that we shall achieve a more authentic view of what happened, as the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Sioux saw it.

Author : Charles Robert Gibson
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Without Wires written by Charles Robert Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Robert Gibson
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Wireless of To-day written by Charles Robert Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edwin Hodder
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 273 pages
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Download or read book The History of South Australia Volume II. written by Edwin Hodder and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of South Australia is a reflection on the colonization of Australia and various other historical events. South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the aridest parts of the country. With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometers (380,048 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and the second smallest state by population.

Author : Australia
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Total Pages : 632 pages
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Download or read book Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette written by Australia and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Birtles
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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Lonely Lands written by Francis Birtles and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble with natives at Wollogarang cattle station (near Nicholson R.); General notes on natives of district; Attacked by natives near Newcastle Waters; Natives set fire to country in search for game near Tennants Creek.