The telegraph station - a trip back in time

[@blokeabouttown2490]

This was a double trip back in time. First to the 1980s and then to the 1870s.

[@SanjanaRanasingha]

True lmao

[@WiseandVegan]

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[@thomasbowden3746]

Thanks for sharing Rob and/or Deane! Much love from the U.S.

[@CuriosityShow]

A great pleasure - Rob

[@WiseandVegan]

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[@Roger__Wilco]

3:25 I went to this museum around 1992, I actually vividly remember them talking about the batteries that used to be in that room and trying to picture them in my head!

[@ashleyringrose2760]

Thank you for your hard work over the years and still uploading!

[@CuriosityShow]

My pleasure - thanks - Rob

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

👍 Great aren't they! I wish my kids in the US could have grown up watching this show!

[@coffeebot3000]

I’ve watched a lot of these Curiosity Shoe videos, and this is one of the most interesting. Is really like to visit this Alice Springs telegraph station.

[@jwnomad]

There's a nice station being preserved down at the Cape Otway lighthouse. Good aboriginal tucker tour too. Well worth the price of admission.

[@notmyfirstlanguage]

I'm so glad I discovered this show now, and so sorry I didn't have access to it as a kid. It would have been my absolute favorite TV show as a child if I had.

[@garrysekelli6776]

If the messages stayed the same after passing through 12 people sitting at repeating stations I'd be surprised.

[@WiseandVegan]

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[@benderrodriquez]

No md5 checksum, I guess.

[@sirhaydn-1]

To be fair, they later used a modified relay to make a telegraph repeater.

[@ArieteArmsRAMLITE]

Best video I've seen for ages.

[@isaacs1052]

Holy moly, I have such fond memories of this show.

[@iggytse]

It’s amazing you need a human to “repeat” the signal. I have heard a story of an Australian sailor in Japan trying to send a telegraph back home because his sister was getting married. By the time the message reached its destination the message was a garbled nonsensical message as it had to go thru human translators as well.

[@cerealport2726]

With Australia Post the way it is now, 3 months to get a letter from australia to europe is looking pretty quick!!

[@baikushex0et682]

😂

[@SanjanaRanasingha]

Thanks rob

[@riverbender9898]

Fascinating! Thanks.

[@kairinase]

As a telephonist in this modern era, I can still relate with the hardships that these telegraph operators went through.

[@dumbldawg744]

these are awesome

[@WiseandVegan]

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[@WiseandVegan]

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[@xasqinq2424]

I love Curiosity Show - thank you for the upload!

[@55skateboard]

Love this stuff

[@SaturnCanuck]

I think you've shown this before, but was just as amazing and informative as the first.

[@welshpete12]

An excellent series . It took 6 weeks for mail ? It gives you some idea how big the country was and still is of course !

[@kurikokaleidoscope]

Great channel and content 🌐

[@alittax]

Very interesting. I've never thought about what went into operating telegraph stations. Thank you! :)

[@WrinkleRelease]

That was excellent.

[@richnewport9549]

As a kid I couldn't stand this show, but now 40 years later I can't get enough.

[@smadaf]

What did you dislike about it then? I'm always curious when people's tastes turn 180 degrees.

[@richnewport9549]

@@smadaf As a kid I just wanted to watch cartoons, this was taking up airtime where they could have put a cartoon on, now I can appreciate the science and facts and realise how good this show really was.

[@danmyers2759]

I’m taking a trip back in time by watching a clip about a trip back in time. That’s meta…

[@SuperMewKittyKatGaming]

first Australian message probably "OY MAYTE BLOODY HELL IS HOT HERE?YOU WANT TO COME TO A BARBIE WITH PRAWN AND FOSTER LAGGER STUBBIES MAYTE?"

[@prayingmantis8148]

😂 as an Aussie, I agree.

[@hrstra]

Except the FOSTER

[@steviebboy69]

Chuck a Prawn on the Barbie, But I am sure Paul Hogan said put a Shrimp on the Barbie for the USA market they were advertising hehe.

[@suspiciousspam]

what font is that @ 0:01

[@smadaf]

CG Triplett Light.

[@suspiciousspam]

@@smadaf awesome thanks

[@ruellerz]

Wow thats wild. The fact it was a human repeater is astonishing

[@Roger__Wilco]

Yeah particularly when the solution is so simple and probably easily understood at their time as a concept, I'm sure they easily had the technology to build an electromagnetic relay/repeater to do the job. Maybe it just wasn't practical as a replacement over that wire for some reason, perhaps it could work but would need more repeater stations maintained to function accurately and was still more economical to do it this way with a single station.

[@CuriosityShow]

There was a string of stations across the continent. you can still visit some of them and, when I was training teachers, we used to stay in one at Beltana. - Rob

[@rchaykovskiy]

@@Roger__WilcoYeah, I thought the same, it'd be quite easy to automate it, even at that time

[@TunipsPrime]

Fascinating that like 'computer,' 'repeater' used to be a job description. Electromechanical repeaters existed by the 1860's; I wonder if it was the remoteness and difficulty in getting parts that meant humans were used instead

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

Incredible! I had no idea! How did they re-charge the batteries?

[@timharig]

This is a repeat. I posted a lot more detail about it the first time if you can find it; but, the short answer is that the batteries were primary wet cells in glass jars. "recharging" meant replacing the terminals and electrolytes that react to create potential and supply the current. Today we might call it battery reconditioning rather than recharging.

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

@@timharig Thank you! That video was a most informative and enjoyable learning experience. I will look for the original!

[@CuriosityShow]

We uploaded it again because this is the 150th anniversary of the telegraph line. The short words will take you to website showing various activities throughout the year - Rob

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

​@@CuriosityShow Love your channel, by the way!

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

@@timharig Try as I may, I could not find the first upload. Please keep us supplied with these shows! They are ALL great!

[@AaronHahnStudios]

Charles Todd who created the north to south telegraph line mentioned here had a wife by the name of Alice... you guessed it, that is how Alice Springs got it's name.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Interesting characters in telegraphy, Horace Martin and T.R. McElroy. 50-75 wpm.

[@thatsjustfucked]

What is they plug it in all the to Darwin but the wire was faulty?

[@stacegamble6559]

Anybody else subconsiously avoid certain videos just because Deane doesnt have a mustache lol

[@Vedrajrm]

I wonder We’re these episodes shot on film or a TV camera?

[@steviebboy69]

I was wondering and thought maybe film because on the older camera's they used a tube, Vidicon I think? and you would get a Comet like trail when panning. Maybe Deane could answer as he was being recorded by the thing.

[@CuriosityShow]

In the studio we used 3 TV cameras, but we used inserts shot on 16 mm film (I still have the Bolex that I used to shoot many of them) and early location shoots (like this one) were on 16 mm film. In later years our location shoots were done with a Betacam and silmilar. In this you cam see a small yellowish light leak fluttering on the side of the screen - one of the hazards of film - Rob

[@smadaf]

@@CuriosityShow , this segment sure looks to me as if it originated on tape-not as if it started on film, went through telecine, and eventually ended up on VHS. If this is film, it's the cleanest and most PAL-like film I've seen.

[@dodo2829]

I'm curious who is posting these videos, maybe the host's grandson.

[@CuriosityShow]

No, it is the two hosts themselves - Rob and Deane

[@dodo2829]

@@CuriosityShow you guys still alive? Lol great content, probably better than all of the childish videos on yt these days. Keep it up.

[@U014B]

How prone were the repeaters to making typos?

[@jwnomad]

very prome

[@smadaf]

And yet you can make an automatic repeater just by connecting a sounder and a key by levers.

[@snappycattimesten]

These pioneers and their legacy are sadly forgotten at best and at worst trashed by woke revisionism.

[@WiseandVegan]

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[@danielsmith-ze3wy]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@89horizon]

Try it on all your dashing friends!