Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Sydney-Newcastle-Maitland Telephone and Telegraph Cable
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 11, no. 9, Sep 1939, pp. 301-312
- Description
This paper, No.675, was prepared for presentation at the Engineering Conference of The Institution, at Newcastle, N.S.W. The author, Robert Lawson OBE MIEAust, is Chief Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
[The introduction includes a brief history of telecommunications between Sydney and Newcastle, and the development of cable systems elsewhere.]
- Abstract
In this paper general reference is made to the increasing demand for high quality long distance communication service throughout Australia and there follows a particular examination of the necessities between Sydney, Newcastle and Maitland. The development of underground cable as a means of solving the service problem is then discussed with special reference to the outstanding advances in high frequency transmission over cable. The new cable, now being laid between Sydney and Maitland, is an outstanding example of the latest design and technique in such matters and a detailed description follows.
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References
- Hayes, Norman William Victor; Attkins, Roy James, 'Long line telephone and telegraph systems in Australia', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (9) (1930), 332-344. Details