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Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company
The Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company operated Australia's first telephone exchange. The exchange was located at 367 Collins Street, and commenced operation in August 1880. H. Byron Moore was a founder and its first manager; W. H. Masters and T. T. Draper were the owners of the company. It later became the Victorian Telephone Exchange Company and remained in private ownership until 1887, when it was bought out by the Victorian Colonial Government. In the first year it had 23 subscribers but by 1887 that number had grown to 887. James Trackson, an electrical engineer, trained at the London Polytechnic, was sent out to install the Melbourne Telephone Exchange. He arrived on the Copernicus in December 1883. He was 25 years of age. James Trackson was the son of James Trackson and Elizabeth and was born in December 1857 at Heigham Heigham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Anne Heigham (c.1563–1601), English Catholic martyr *Clement Heigham (c.1495–1571), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. The term is derived from el, τῆλε (''tēle'', ''far'') and φωνή (''phōnē'', ''voice''), together meaning ''distant voice''. A common short form of the term is ''phone'', which came into use early in the telephone's history. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice at a second device. This instrument was further developed by many others, and became rapidly indispensable in business, government, and in households. The essential elements of a telephone are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heigham
Heigham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Anne Heigham (c.1563–1601), English Catholic martyr *Clement Heigham (c.1495–1571), English lawyer and politician *John Heigham (c.1568–c.1634), English Roman Catholic printer, writer, and translator *Roger Heigham (c.1515–1558), English politician Heigham, once a village and parish, is now a suburb of the city of Norwich. See also *Higham (other) Higham may refer to: Places *Higham, Derbyshire, England * Higham, Kent, England * Higham, Lancashire, England *Higham, South Yorkshire, England *Higham, Babergh, Suffolk, England *Higham, West Suffolk, Suffolk, England *Cold Higham, Northamptonshi ... * Higham (surname) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toowoomba
Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 Census was 142,163, having grown at an average annual rate of 1.45% over the previous two decades. Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in the country after the national capital of Canberra and hence the largest city on the Darling Downs, and it is among the largest regional centres in Queensland. It is also referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs. The Toowoomba region is the home of two main Aboriginal language groups, the Giabal whose lands extend south of the city and Jarowair whose lands extend north of the city. The Jarowair lands include the site of one of Australia's most important sacred Bora ceremonial ground, the ‘Gummingurru stone arrangement’ dated to c.4000 BC. The site marked one of the major rout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
