An end of isolation - the La Perouse cable station / John Walter Ross
- Bib ID:
- 7291865
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ross, John, 1946-, author
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- National edeposit
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- National edeposit: Available online
- Description:
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- Surry Hills, NSW : John Walter Ross, 2016
- 1 online resource (pages 87) : colour illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs.
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- text file PDF 5.58MB
- Summary:
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Until the second half of the nineteenth century, the only communication between Britain and Australia was by ship, taking weeks or months to receive news, correspondence and Government directives in the colonies. But discoveries involving the generation and use of electricity opened the way to much faster communication via overhead wires and undersea cables. The first Australian telegraph line was opened in 1854 between Melbourne and the port of Williamstown to provide the city with early news of shipping arrivals. The original cable landing site of Sydney town was deemed unsuitable due to shipping traffic and strong tides in the harbour, so the more isolated suburb of La Perouse was chosen. The cable was laid across the 1,370 nautical miles of the Tasman Sea the next year. A permanent Cable Station was constructed at the landing site in 1882, and was used until increased business led to the construction of a larger building at nearby Yarra Bay in 1903. The cable operated to La Perouse until 1917 when it was redirected to Bondi Beach and extended right into the cable office in Sydney, at which point the La Perouse cable station buildings were closed.
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- "La Perouse Museum (Museums and Galleries of New South Wales website)"--Cover photograph.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Communication planning -- Australia -- History
- Communication planning -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
- Historic buildings -- New South Wales
- Telegraph -- New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
- Telegraph -- New Zealand -- History
- La Perouse (N.S.W.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- La Perouse (N.S.W.) -- History
- La Perouse (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs
- Australian
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