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    The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was an electrical telegraph system for sending messages the 3200 kilometres (2000 miles) between Darwin, in what...
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  • The Overland Telegraph is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by John Waters and written by Harry Sinclair Drago, George C. Hull and Edward J...
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    The Overland Telegraph Company was one of the organizations responsible for constructing the telegraph line which resulted in the first transcontinental...
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  • Overland Telegraph is a 1955 Australian book by Frank Clune about the construction of the Overland Telegraph. It is one of Clune's best known works. The...
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    construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in 1872, which ran from Darwin in the north to Port Augusta (near Adelaide) in the south. It was initially...
    9 KB (1,059 words) - 16:21, 17 April 2024
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    surveyor of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line who is best known for naming a waterhole in Central Australia Alice Spring, from which the town of Alice...
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  • Overland Telegraph is a 1951 American Western film starring Tim Holt. Cowboys Tim Holt and Chito Rafferty are looking for work when they help Terry Muldoon...
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    of the First transcontinental railroad. Telegraph in United States history Australian Overland Telegraph Line, a north–south Australian telegraph line...
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    the United States, the Morse/Vail telegraph was quickly deployed in the two decades following the first demonstration in 1844. The overland telegraph...
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    Charles Todd (pioneer) (category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society)
    as Post Master General and Superintendent of Telegraphs during the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line in 1872 are held by State Records of South...
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    first time in 1872, through the Overland Telegraph which ran some 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from Adelaide through to Darwin. The network continued to expand...
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    The Russian–American Telegraph, also known as the Western Union Telegraph Expedition and the Collins Overland Telegraph, was an attempt by the Western...
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    Utility pole (redirect from Telegraph Post)
    Australia, June 2012. McMullen, Ron, "The Overland Telegraph", The Australian Telegraph Office (CD ROM). Rob Linn, ETSA – The Story of Electricity in South Australia...
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    Perth, with the overland telegraph line moving straight down to Adelaide through Alice Springs then connecting into Australia's existing telegraph network...
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  • depot for the construction teams building the Overland Telegraph Line in 1870–1871, and also served as a repeater station on the Overland Telegraph Line from...
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  • Overland or Øverland or variants may refer to: Overland, Missouri, a city in the United States Overland Park, Kansas, a city in the United States Overland...
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  • of the Overland Telegraph Line. The contract over, King joined the Government service under (later Sir) Charles Todd, and R. C. Patterson. He led the advance...
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    Beltana (category Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia)
    Australian Overland Telegraph Line and The Ghan railway and began to decline in 1941 with the beginning of coal mining at Leigh Creek. The fortune of the town...
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    Australia to the rest of the world. The discovery of gold by employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line digging holes for telegraph poles at Pine...
    124 KB (11,298 words) - 00:58, 11 July 2024
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    Outback (redirect from The Outback)
    transcontinental party. The Overland Telegraph line was constructed in the 1870s along the route identified by Stuart. In 1865, the surveyor George Goyder...
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