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	Collies Overland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But she is an unmarried woman with a newborn baby collies overland and dark secrets, the object of tawdry talk although her family is the most prominent in the community.
		Overland Campaign - The Overland Campaign, or Grant's Overland Campaign, was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June, 1864, in the American Civil War.
		Australian Overland Telegraph Line - The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was a 3200 Kilometre telegraph line that connected Darwin with Port Augusta, the construction of the line fell to Charles Todd, South Australian Superintendent of Telegraphs.
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	Australian gold rushes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gold was later found in all of the other Australian colonies (later known as states or territories).
		With the goldrushes came a huge influx of immigrants, the continent's population increasing threefold from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.
		With the gold rushes came the construction of the first railways and telegraph line, multiculturalism and racism, the Eureka rebellion and the end of penal transportation to the east coast of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_gold_rushes (632 words)

	Nashua Telegraph
		Ultimately, the introduction of the telegraph contributed to the centralization of foreign ministries nashua telegraph and the rising importance of signals intelligence.
		Telegraph of Nashua - The Telegraph of Nashua is a daily newspaper in Nashua, New Hampshire.
		Australian Overland Telegraph Line - The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was a 3200 km telegraph line that connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia.
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	Australian Overland Telegraph Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was a 3200 km telegraph line that connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia.
		The South Australian Superintendent of Telegraphs, Charles Todd, was appointed head of the project, and devised a timetable to complete the immense project on schedule.
		The line proved an immediate success in opening the Northern Territory; gold discoveries were made in several places along the northern section (in particular Pine Creek), and the repeater stations in the MacDonnell Ranges proved invaluable starting points for explorers like Ernest Giles, W.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Overland_Telegraph_Line (1084 words)

	The Telegrapher Web Page
		Esther Stone Brown, a telegrapher for the New York Central Railroad in Wauseon, Ohio, in 1875; her sister Eliza was a telegrapher in Chicago during the fire of 1871.
		The Aurora Borealis and the Telegraph, early accounts of the effect of the northern lights on the operation of the telegraph.
		The Overland Telegraph Line, construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin in 1872.
	www.mindspring.com /~tjepsen/Teleg.html (1715 words)

	Australian Overland Telegraph Line.
		The overland line was completed on 22nd August 1872 with an almost 2,000-mile strand of wire (2900 kilometres) on 36,000 poles at the then staggering cost of 300,000 Pounds.
		This line then linked up with a submarine telegraph cable laid between Darwin and Java on 21st October 1872, which was connected with the extensive British telegraph network, so providing Australia with its first telecommunications link with the rest of the world.
		This line was nearly as difficult to build as the Overland Telegraph Line, with the construction teams having to cope with searing heat, shifting sands, and lack of water.
	home.iprimus.com.au /oseagram/morse.html (474 words)

	Tennant creek telegraph station historical reserve - Find a park - Parks - NRETA - NT Government - Australia
		The Overland Telegraph Line was built along a 3,600km route from Adelaide to Darwin, which had been traversed in 1860 by John McDouall Stuart's expedition party.
		Charles Todd, the Superintendent of the South Australian telegraph network, inspired the government to build the thin galvanised line to bridge the gap between Australia and Britain.
		The Tennant Creek Telegraph Station Historical Reserve is 10km north of Tennant Creek on the Stuart Highway.
	www.nt.gov.au /nreta/parks/find/tennantcreek.html (516 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Stamps
		In June 1870 the Government of South Australia and the British-Australian Telegraph Company signed a contract in which the cable company agreed to the laying of a cable from Java to Australia on the condition that the Overland Telegraph between Adelaide and Darwin would be in operation by 1 January 1872.
		His first major undertaking as Superintendent of Telegraphs was the construction of a telegraph line from Adelaide to Port Augusta, beginning in November 1855, which became part of the Overland Telegraph.
		In 1997 a PSE (Pre Stamped Envelope) was issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the completion of the Overland Telegraph, with Sir Charles Todd depicted along with a telegraph pole and insulator on the imprinted 45c stamp.
	atlantic-cable.com /stamps/Other/index9.htm (2666 words)

	Global Adrenaline :: Australia New Zealand :: Australia
		Alice Springs was founded in 1870 as a staging point for the overland telegraph line, although its present-day traffic is largely comprised of tourists visiting nearby Ayers Rock (Uluru) and those passing through on trips between Darwin to the north and Adelaide to the south.
		Approximately 150-200 miles from the shore of the Australian mainland, sheer, isolated and remote pinnacles of reef rise to the surface of the sea.
		Australians enjoy a relaxed, open-air lifestyle that is evident in the warm welcome they extend to all visitors to their country.
	www.globaladrenaline.com /australianewzealand/australia (3391 words)

	QSL COLLECTION
		The line was 1,204 kilometres long from Albany to Eucla and it was necessary to install 4 intermediate repeating stations spaced between 309 kilometres to 167 kilometres apart, to boost the Morse signals.
		At repeater stations along the line, in addition to the primary electrical circuit and batteries which supplied the current to power the line, there was a secondary circuit and a second set of batteries which was used to power the sounder and other equipment.
		However, with the construction of telegraph lines 100 kilometres to the north alongside the Trans-Continental Railway track from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, and with the increasing use of wireless telegraphy, it gradually fell into disuse and was closed in 1927.
	www.qsl.at /english/en_australien.html (3487 words)

	The intercolonial telegraph line at Eucla.
		In 1874, the WA Legislative Council voted £15,000 for the construction of a telegraph line from King George Sound, Albany Western Australia to Eucla on the border with South Australia.
		This inter-colonial line, 2532 kms long, was opened on 8th December 1877 at a total cost of £33,000 amid congratulatory messages keyed along the single iron wire linking the colonies.
		The telegraph table extended north and south the full length of the room, and for telegraphic purposes the boundary line between the two provinces ran up the centre of the table.
	members.iinet.net.au /~oseagram/eucla.html (950 words)

	The Overland Telegraph Line to Darwin.
		The Overland Telegraph Line - Adelaide to Darwin.
		The South Australian Government recognised the benefits which would flow from being the epicentre of a telegraph network across Australia and the opportunities for developing the unknown northern region of the state, which at that time also included the Northern Territory.
		This epic achievement pioneered a path for the Telegraph Line and in 1870 the South Australian Parliament authorised $250,000 to construct a telegraph line connecting Adelaide with Port Augusta, 300 kilometres to the north.
	www.wilmap.com.au /atts/129.html (1106 words)

	The History of Australian Exploration ch 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the 5th June they crossed the boundary line between Western Australia and South Australia; but their progress was now monotonous and most uninteresting, being through the scrubby, sandy tableland common to the interior.
		The fact of having the means, in their camels, to venture on long dry stages with impunity, led them to disdain the careful manner in which Forrest felt his way across; but in the end that explorer had certainly the best idea of the country he had travelled over.
		No continuous line of country could even be traced as corresponding on the routes of the different travellers, and unfortunately, where good country was found, the want of surface water held out no encouragement for the grazier to follow up the explorers' footsteps.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /ausexplore/ausexpl1-12.html (5283 words)

	Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin
		Before the completion of this line, Australians were fed on a diet of stale news, often months old.
		Charles Todd had already established a telegraph line from Port Augusta to Adelaide in 1865, connecting it with Victoria.
		The task of constructing the line proved immense, involving the penetration into mercilessly cruel country of which little or nothing was known.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /overland.htm (1046 words)

	DUNMARRA, MIDDLE, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
		Located 300 kilometres south of Katherine, Dunmarra is a small settlement on the historical Overland Telegraph Line.
		Overland Telegraph linesman, Dan O’Mara, disappeared in the region in the early 1900s.
		There is a monument to the Overland Telegraph Line beside the Stuart Highway south of Dunmarra, dedicated to Sir Charles Todd, Postmaster, General of the Province of South Australia, 1872.
	www.australianexplorer.com /dunmarra.htm (202 words)

	Backpacking Australia and independent travel information by Australia Overland
		In 1871, the builders of the Overland Telegraph line linking Australia with England and Europe, sited one of the repeater stations by a water hole on the banks of the generally dry Todd River, named after the Superintendent of Telegraphs, Sir Charles Todd.
		Some 3km south of the telegraph station, the town of Stuart was established as a centre for the area's pastoralists.
		OVERLAND TELEGRAPH STATION - Surrounded by a reserve of green lawns and picnic areas, the thick-walled stone buildings of the station have been restored and display early photographs and documents.
	www.ozoverland.com /places/Places.asp?PlaceID=32 (616 words)

	mcgowan
		But on March 3 1854, the first telegraph line in Australia began operation (six months before the first Australian railway line was opened between Melbourne and Port Melbourne on September 12) and McGowan himself was gazetted as general-superintendent of the new electric telegraph of Victoria.
		McGowan's overall plans depended on a Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide telegraphic triangle but he had to press the NSW Colony to build a telegraph within their own borders to understand the workings of the system before plans for an intercontinental link were made.
		He saw the overland route as a shorter distance, at less cost and more easily repaired but in 1858 the desert was uncharted and should be settled before this concept taken up.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /whitburn/94/history/mcgowan.htm (1118 words)

	The Telegraph Office -- for Telegraph Key Collectors and Historians
		Thomas Edison: The teenage telegrapher became a telegraph engineer an telegraph instrument maker before becoming the premier inventor of the 19th century.
		Australian Overland Telegraph Line: History of Telegraphy and Telegraphists from down under by Larry Rice, Australian telegraph historian.
		Three Telegraphic Poems of the 19th century: Besides being a great electro-physicist, James C. Maxwell was quite a poet.
	www.telegraph-office.com /tel_off-page.html (2958 words)

	Barrow Creek Telegraph Station Historical Reserve - Find a park - Parks - NRETA - NT Government - Australia
		The Telegraph Station was one of fifteen original Stations, three of which are now managed by Parks and Wildlife as Historical Reserves, the other two being Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.
		Over the years, the Telegraph Station has faced many changes such as the installation of a new roof in 1941 to replace the original roof which was destroyed in a gale and in 1965-66 having the verandahs paved and stone balustrades constructed.
		Barrow Creek Telegraph Station is located 282 km north of Alice Springs on the Stuart HIghway, approximately midway between the towns of Alice Aprings and Tennant Creek.
	www.nt.gov.au /nreta/parks/find/barrowcreek.html (470 words)

	AIR SPORTS INTERNATIONAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bob Silver is an Australian microlight instructor who lives in Noosa, north of Brisbane, and who had wanted to fly his Airborne Edge trike on this route for several years; his wife Joan and friend Alan drove Bob's Winnebago for our ground support.
		Australian bush strips are all dirt but mostly they're recognisable unless there's also dirt surrounding them - then it gets tricky.
		Its main growth was from wool trading and, in 1871, from the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.
	airsports.fai.org /apr2000/apr200002.html (4729 words)

	Outback Safari In Australia - Australia Tour With australian Portfolio.
		When the overland telegraph line was built from Adelaide to Darwin, revolutionizing communications between London and her distant dominion, Bill Hayes’ great grandfather was with the team.
		The recently built homestead has a reconstructed bar area for evening gatherings and dinner with the family will give you the opportunity to hear a few “yarns” and learn more of the regions history as well as about the way outback life changes each year.
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	www.australianportfolio.com /accommodation/Ooraminna.htm (557 words)

	Repeater Stations along the Overland Telegraph
		As many as eleven repeater stations were built along the Overland Telegraph Line between Port Augusta and Darwin which was completed in August 1872.
		During 1870 some 3000 sheep from the Lake Hope Area in South Australia were overlanded to the Northern Territory, for the men working on the line at Roper River, by Ralph and John Milner.
		In 1873, 5000 sheep were overlanded from Adelaide by Alfred Giles for distribution among the Telegraph Stations along the line.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /repeaterstations.htm (831 words)

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		Notwithstanding the clamour in regard to telegraphic monopoly, it is a result of an inevitable law that business shall be mainly conducted under one great organization.
		person wants to telegraph to a friend, he knows not where, he will call an electromagnetic voice, which will be heard loud by him who has the electromagnetic ear, but will be silent to everyone else.
		He will call "Where are you?" and the reply will come, "I am at the bottom of the coal-mine" or "Crossing the Andes" or "In the middle of the Pacific"; or perhaps no reply will come at all, and he may then conclude that his friend is dead.
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	John Forrest
		However, they were the first to cross Australia from west to the east, having travelled overland from Perth to Adelaide, the opposite direction taken by Eyre some years earlier.
		Their supplies of tea and sugar were all gone and they survived on flour-porridge three times a day.
		Three days later they reached the Peaks Telegraph station where they were given food and clothing.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/forrest/john.htm (947 words)

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