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Charles Todd biography

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A comprehensive biography. Educated as an electrician and astronomer in England before his appointment as director of electric telegraph in Adelaide. His distinguished career involved establishing a telegraph line from Adelaide to Melbourne in 1856, the overland telegraph line to Port Darwin in 1972 and a network of meteorological stations across South Australia.

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