Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- The Overland Telegraph Station Alice Springs - a Conservation Study
- In
- Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings
- Imprint
- Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000, pp. 169-174
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0980960352
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.910687451392884
- Abstract
The telegraph repeater station at Alice Springs, Central Australia, was a major station on the Overland Telegraph Line constructed from 1870 to 1872, an engineering project of national significance. It was in continuous operation from 1872 until 1932 a period of 60 years during which time it was expanded both in building fabric and in technology. There were five distinct periods of occupancy up until the present date with varied uses including housing the so called 'stolen children'. In the late 20th Century some conservation was attempted with dreadful mistakes. It is now a government owned tourist venue. The first (1872) building could be a subject for restoration to the original form and serve as a museum of 19th Century telegraph technology and include an engineering heritage plaque.
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- Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings edited by Lowe, P. G.; Hill, R .F. (Auckland, New Zealand: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2000), 248 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0980960352. Details