Clear Across Australia: A History to Telecommunications by Ann Moyal

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine tail. Presentation bookplate on blank page. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Body text and binding are still very good.

Clear Across Australia is the story of the development of telecommunications in Australia. It is the history of technology and people. It is also a story of Australia's great pioneering enterprise, Telecom Australia (Telstra), and its predecessors, the Postmaster-General's Department and the colonial telegraph offices.

In the early days of European settlement, communications were by slow sailing ships. The Telegraph, first introduced in Victoria in 1854, soon put people more closely in touch with each other. The building of the great Overland Telegraph Line across the deserts of Central Australia to Darwin linked Australia by direct cable communication to the rest of the world. It was the beginning of a long telecommunications revolution. (book flap)