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Sir Charles Todd
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Sir Charles Todd
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Charles Todd was one of the most notable public servants of Australia in the nineteenth century. Superintendent of Telegraphs, Government Astronomer, Postmaster-General, meteorologist and engineer, he served his adopted state unstintingly for more than fifty years.Todd was trained in England and came to South Australia when he was thirty. He worked for the government putting up telegraph lines and observing the stars and the weather. Within months of his arrival, Todd set up the first telegraph line in South Australia, from Adelaide to its port. He extended the telegraph network to all the major towns and linked it with Victoria's system. His greatest achievement was to build the Overland Telegraph Line across the centre of Australia. This line linked up with a telegraph cable that came under the sea from Asia.

The telegraph bound Australia together long before Federation.
Date 1 January 1900
date QS:P571,+1900-01-01T00:00:00Z/11
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The History Trust of South Australia
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GN00892
Source The History Trust of South Australian, South Australian Government
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