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Anonymous ID: a57626 March 28, 2020, 5:29 p.m. No.8605097   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8605075

thankQ b8ker

 

>>8603996 (pb)

>>8604559 (lb)

 

Alice Springs, EAU

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs)

>In 1861–62, John McDouall Stuart led an expedition through Central Australia, to the west of what later became Alice Springs, thereby establishing a route from the south of the continent to the north.[10] A white settlement was started ten years later with the construction of a repeater station on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line (OTL), which linked Adelaide to Darwin and Great Britain.

 

>The settlement was optimistically named Alice Springs after the wife of the former Postmaster General of South Australia, Sir Charles Todd.

 

Sir Charles Todd

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Todd_(pioneer))

 

>son of grocer Griffith Todd and Mary Parker

Father was a wine and tea merchant

<Reminds me that wineries/vineyards are used today to facilitate yuman trafficking.

 

Sir Charles Todd has some interdasting life work

 

>In December 1841, he entered the service of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, under Sir George Biddell Airy. He was fortunate that his school leaving coincided with the Astronomer Royal being granted special funding to employ an additional four young men as computers to analyse, calibrate and publish a backlog of 80 years of data. While at the Royal Observatory he was one of the earliest observers of the planet Neptune in 1846.

 

  • Assistant Astronomer at Cambridge Observatory in 1847

  • First to take daguerreotype photos of the moon

  • 1855 became Astronomical and Meteorological Observer, and Head of Electric Telegraph Department in South Australia

    • Royal Observatory was run by the Admiralty

    • connected to our current use of GMT standard

  • On November 5, 1855, at age 29, brought his 18-year-old wife, Alice Gillam Bell to Adelaide

  • 1860 demonstrated the electric arc lamp

    • instrumental in pushing electric lighting to Australia

  • 1870 became Postmaster General of South Australia

    • two robberies on PO in 1874

  • in1 1899, with his son-in-law William Henry Bragg, demonstrated a wireless system that could be used over a distance of 4km

^horry sheet

  • in 1901 when colonies were federated, despite the large area and sparse population, South Australia had the only Telegraph/Post department that made profit

 

  • grandfather to William Lawrence Bragg - - discovered Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction

 

Honestly, I got excited over the name of Alice Springs, and now I'm digging in a hole of unknown depth.