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Conference Paper

Author
Moynihan, J. F.
Title
Interpreting the Engineering History of Telephony in Western Australia, 1887-1987
In
Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1990: Interpreting Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers
Imprint
Institution of Engineers, Australia, Western Australian Division, Perth, W.A., 1990, pp. 45-52
ISBN/ISSN
0909421234
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.624017614650283
Subject
History of Applied Sciences Engineering
Abstract

The paper discusses the growth of Western Australia's telephone network during its first 100 years of operation. Western Australia first experimented with telephones in 1878, but it was 1887 before a public telephone exchange was opened, at Perth. Although having one of Australia's early automatic exchanges (at Perth) in 1914, growth of the telephone network was relatively slow until after the World War and especially since the 1960s'. At that time coaxial cables, microwave radio systems and crossbar exchanges emerged, leading up to digital transmission and switching systems in the 1980s'.

Source
Carlson 1991

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