An ABC News story today tells of the celebrations in Darwin this week marking the start of the Overland Telegraph on 20th June 1870 when the South Australian parliament voted to dedicate about half its annual budget to building the telegraph line!
Barrie Barnes of the SA & NT Morsecodians and others appear in the video accompanying the story explaining the history.
A Soviet Tube in Cuba: The "Little Spider"
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*I hope readers have picked up on the discussion of the Islander DSB rig
out of Cuba. We had a bit of a breakthrough on this recently. I've been
writing...
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