NSW Engineering Timeline: Electricity, Power and Communications
From Engineering Heritage Australia
| Pre 1788 | 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 | |
| Power | First windmill, 1797. Water mill at Parramatta, 1798. |
First steam engine in Dickinson’s mill, 1815. | Whale oil street lamp, Macquarie Place, 1826. | First gas street lamps, 1841 | Garden Palace lit by electric arc lights 2.12.1879. Tamworth first town in Southern Hemisphere with electric street light 9.11.1888. Sydney & Suburban Hydraulic Power Coy 1889-1975. | ||
| Telecommunications | All Australian colonies are joined by telegraph, with the completion of a connection to Perth on 9.12.1877. First telephone tested between La Perouse and Sydney on 13.1.1878. |
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| 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 | |
| Power | Electricity supply switched on to Sydney, 8.1.1904. | First radio station (2SB –now 702 ABC) commences 23.11.1923
First section of electrified underground railway opened in Sydney, 1926. Sydney County Council formed, 1936. . |
Electricity Commission of NSW formed, 1950.
Work commences on Lucas Heights Nuclear Reactor, 1958. |
First 660 MW generator in Australia commissioned at Vales Point Power Station, 1978. | ||
| Telecommunications | Sydney and Melbourne connected by telephone, 1907. | Television commences in Australia on 16.9.1957. | ||||
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 |
