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| MB to Richard Smith |
| Re: How were local newspaper stories dis |
| 24 Feb 20 14:06:32 |
From: MB@nospam.net On 24/02/2020 11:38, Richard Smith wrote: > Australia was indeed connected in 1872, but it wasn't the last country > to be connected. New Zealand wasn't connected until 1876, and I'm sure > some more obscure and/or less developed countries were later still. I > can't find out when Bhutan was connected, but that's the sort of country > that I can imagine may well have been left unconnected very late indeed. The Singing Line is worth reading, tells the story of the laying of the telegraph line across Australia to connect to the submarine one (which promptly went faulty). --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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