Hi Ron, Hi Buck,
Thanks for the photos, transcriptions and links which are very interesting.
If Todd's father had not worked in Greenwich and if Todd had not gone to
school there, it makes one wonder if he would ever have made the connection
with the Observatory which in turn appears to have set him down a path
that would eventually see him with the unenviable task of stringing up a wire
across the interior of Australia.
ABC Television aired a program called "A Wire Through The Heart" just a few
years ago and it was only recently aired again. It re-enacts the journey taken by
John Stuart and then followed-up by Charles Todd with the telegraph.
Recommended viewing and available on DVD -
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/produc...oductid=744048