James Macgeorge

James Macgeorge (1832 - 9 Disamba 1918) ya kasance masanin gine-gine ne wanda aka haifa a Kudancin Australia . Ana tunawa da shi saboda gina Layin telegraph na farko na Kudancin Australia."Church of England Collegiate School". South Australian Register. Vol. XII, no. 845. South Australia. 21 June 1848. p. 3. Retrieved 18 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

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An haifi James Macgeorge a Scotland, ɗan na biyar na mai sa tufafi Robert Forsyth Macgeorge (1795-1860) da matarsa Elizabeth M. Macgeorge, née Duncan (1801-), wanda tare da danginsu suka yi hijira zuwa Kudancin Australia a cikin Ariadne, sun isa ranar 13 ga Agusta 1839. Sun haɓaka dukiyar da suka kira "Urr brae", yanzu unguwar da aka sani da Urrbrae.

James ya yi karatu a Makarantar Kwalejin Cocin Ingila (wanda ya riga ya kasance Kwalejin St Peter), inda ya kasance fitaccen ɗalibi.[1] Ya fara aiki a matsayin masanin gine-gine a shekara ta 1855 kuma a wannan shekarar ya amsa sanarwa a cikin Gazette na 25 ga Janairu yana tallata gasa don tsara tsarin sake fasalin ruwa don Adelaide, sannan ya nemi bincike lokacin da ba a ba da kyauta ba.[2] A wannan shekarar ya fara gudanar da layin telegraph tsakanin birnin da Port Adelaide.[3] Tun a farkon shekara ta 1853 Gwamnati ta jefa kuri'a don samar da irin wannan layin amma ba ta sami ci gaba ba; duk da haka lokacin da Macgeorge ya nemi izinin tsarawa an ƙi shi bisa la'akari da kwafin da ba dole ba.[4] Macgeorge ya shawo kan waɗannan cikas ta hanyar guje wa hanyar jirgin ƙasa (mai sarrafawa) da manyan hanyoyi, kuma a ranar 1 ga Disamba 1855 layin ya fara aiki, kuma ya yi daidai. Kasa da watanni biyu bayan haka, Charles Todd, tare da mafi girman balaguro, ya kammala layin Gwamnati, mafi kai tsaye, mafi girma, kuma ya fi tsada.[5] Bayan shekara guda, Gwamnati ta sayi layin Macgeorge kuma ta janye shi. Zaɓin Macgeorge na Green's Exchange ya zama mafi dacewa ga jama'a fiye da na Todd kuma an karbe shi a matsayin ofishin telegraph na gwamnati.[6]

Tsakanin 1853 da 1857 shi da surukinsa John Turner sun gudanar da hukumar sufuri, tare da ofis na farko a Bank Street, sannan daga Afrilu 1856, a Currie Street. Bayan rasuwar mahaifinsa a cikin jirgin ruwa a 1860, James ya tsara kuma ya gina gidan "St Andrews" don kansa da mahaifiyarsa, a Arewacin Adelaide.

Ya kasance memba na tushe na Kudancin Australia Society of Arts kuma sakatarensa na farko (1855-1856). A kusa da shekara ta 1861 ya fara yin hasashe a cikin hakar ma'adinai da hannun jari na makiyaya kuma a cikin 1863, bayan faduwar tattalin arziki an tilasta masa ya bayyana kansa ba shi da kuɗi. Ɗan'uwansa Ebenezer, wanda ya kasance mai binciken ƙasa a Ma'aikatar Ayyukan Jama'a, ya haɗu da shi a 1864 kuma a matsayin haɗin gwiwa yana da aikin gine-gine mai nasara.

A watan Disamba na shekara ta 1880 James Macgeorge ya bar Adelaide zuwa Ingila. Ya mutu a Ashford, Kent a ranar 9 ga Disamba 1918.

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