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A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel I-beams, joined by tie-bolts, and held apart by a slab of concrete. It was invented by Adelaide Electric Supply Company engineer James Cyril Stobie, who suggested the use of readily available materials due to the shortage of suitably long, strong, straight and termite -resistant timber in ...
The invention and use of the Stobie pole contributed to the success of the rollout by the company. [1] In 1912 the original building was substantially remodelled into a double-storey building that included offices, a laboratory, a room for testing the various instruments, and the company's switchboard and other communications systems. [5]
1856: South Australia becomes one of the first places in the world to enact the Secret Ballot. 1857: Adelaide Botanic Garden opened at today's site in the Parklands at the corner of North and East Terraces. 1858: Melbourne-Adelaide telegraph line opened. 1858: The first edition of The Advertiser newspaper is published.
Angle Park is home to a large immigrant population. The initial settlement of the suburb coincided with a large wave of immigrants from Eastern Europe arriving in Australia, following the Second World War. Although most of their children have moved on, a large number of immigrant retirees still live in the area.
The Stobie pole was invented in 1924 by James Cyril Stobie of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company and first used in South Terrace, Adelaide. [ 16 ] One of the early Bell System lines was the Washington DC–Norfolk line which was, for the most part, square-sawn tapered poles of yellow pine probably treated to refusal with creosote .
Three weeks after earning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis keeps making history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old Swedish pole vaulter set yet another ...
She was the initiator of Stobie pole art in 1983, a practice which continues today. [9] In 1988, upon being invited to China along with Anne Morris on a Sino-Australian cultural exchange, the two Australian artists worked with four Chinese artists on a series of large murals in Xianyang, in Shaanxi province. [9]
Lil History Lesson for the day, on August 3rd, 1958 the Nautilus submarine was the first submarine in history to travel under the north pole — Josh Paydon (@Dahl0negaG0ld) August 3, 2015