Title Taming the tyrant : the first one hundred years of Australia's international communication services / Edgar Harcourt

Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1987

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ADPML REF	384.0994 Har/Ttt		LIB USE ONLY

Description xv, 405 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm Contents Includes index Summary How Australia overcame the tyranny of distance when a copper wire connection with Britain - via Asia and the Middle East landed in Darwin in the 1870's Analysis History International cooperation Overseas Telecommunications Commission Australia Telecommunications Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 387-395 Includes index Subject Australia. Overseas Telecommunications Commission -- History. Australia. Overseas Telecommunications Commission. Telecommunication systems -- Australia -- History. Telecommunication -- Australia -- History. Telecommunication -- Australia -- International cooperation -- History. Author Australia. Overseas Telecommunications Commission. LC no. 04994011 ISBN 0049940112

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