Australia: 1854-1988.
Index - B.


 

Topic Relevant Location Description.
Baldness -- curing Orange (Tit bits) Use of telegraph battery cells to cure baldness.
Balls to notify time Australia Use of time balls.
Bamfield Pacific Cable Station See Pacific Cable
Belt & Buckle datestamps Victoria  
Bicycles   For delivery of telegrams.
    Travelling from Perth to Melbourne.
Birds Australia See Cockatoos and Magpies.
  Geese - Victoria Knocking over a telegraph pole at Rokewood, Vic.
  Pigeons - Bourke, NSW Flock flew into the telegraph wires.
  The Bird-Man of Yass, NSW Mr. Colls - the Telegraph Station Master.
  Black Swan, WA. Death of a Black Swan near Northam.
  Emus - Western Australia Visitors to an isolated Telegraph Office.
Birth notice England Implication of wiring family and friends by telegraph.
Birthdays Australia Ornamental birthday delivery forms.
  Australia Birthday Greetings from the Queen
- 100 years young!!!!
  Miscellaneous Telegram depicted on humourous postcards.
Boer War N/A Cutting the Telegraph lines
(photograph from The Sphere).
  South Australia The celebrations at Nairne celebrating the end
of the Boer War.
Borders SA with NSW and Vic Use of the telegraph by Todd to define Colonial borders.
  NSW and Victoria Triangulation to Cape Howe and Mt Kosciusko.
  Queensland and SA Measurement of distances from Boulia.
Botany All over Oz. See plants
British and Irish Telegraph Company    
Broken Hill Company New South Wales Reference to the share float (July 1885).
     
Burke and Wills
(Explorers)
Victoria See Explorers.
Bush fires Australia Urgent telegram warning of fire danger.
Bushrangers   The Kelly Gang
  Around Carcoar in Central West NSW Ben Hall
  The need for a telegraph station at Jerilderie. The area where the bushranger Morgan roamed.