The Overland Telegraph line was constructed in the 1870s along the route identified by Stuart, who had found enough water to support the needed repeater stations.

From the 1870s onwards, the word torpedo was increasingly used only to describe self-propelled projectiles that traveled under or on water.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of California completed reports as early as the 1870s and 1880s that detailed the geography and water supplies of the Sacramento, Feather, Yuba and Bear rivers.

The water powered mill continued to be a flour mill until the 1870s when roller mills replaced grindstones.

They talked about options for draining the mines, and found the only system available for pumping water out of mines below was the Cornish engine which had been used at the Comstock Lode in the 1870s.

" By the early 1870s water diversions were being used to irrigate an extensive area of corn and other crops.

The city's site was first settled in the 1870s as Okabena Station on a line of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, later the Chicago and North Western Railway ( now part of the Union Pacific Railroad ) where steam engines would take on water from adjacent Lake Okabena.

Starting in the 1870s, Covington and its surroundings began to receive the benefits of the new technologies that were being invented and then extended across the middle of the United States: the railroad, telegraph, household electric power, a municipal pure water supply, the paving of the town's streets, and the provision of natural gas.

In the 1870s, some of the upper gullies of the creek were considered as a possible location for a reservoir, to supply Adelaide's growing population with water.

The 1870s saw the settlement establish a number of key infrastructure and services including the first water supply.

In the 1870s many roads were built near the water and many large homes were built in the area near the water.

In the mid 1870s a company led by James Bain was formed in Invercargill to establish a paper mill on the east bank of the river downstream of the Mataura falls, using water collected from upstream of the falls to provide cheap power to the paper making machinery.

His first refinery, built in 1867, was at Eighth and Brannan Streets in San Francisco, but by the late 1870s the Brannan Street facilities were running at capacity, so Spreckels chose a site in Potrero Point to open a larger sugar refinery with water access.

In the late 1870s he invented the Pelton water wheel, then the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine.

Mill lock was the site of a water mill from the 1870s until a little before the First World War.

Attention soon focused on the Cedar River, an idea first proposed in the 1870s ; the question was how to bring that water to the city.

By the early 1870s, regular sale of the water was carried out in most of the large Russian cities.

At the North of England Lead Mining Museum at Killhope one can see a huge working water wheel, known as the Killhope Wheel. This was installed in the 1870s to power the crushing of grit in tanks in an adjacent building, so as to complete the separation of lead ore from worthless stone.

By the 1870s the expansion of Hull was predicted to be such that additional water supply would be needed, and plans for extraction were made for two sites near Cottingham.

Throughout the 1870s he represented the Third Ward in council and served on the Atlanta Board of Education and in the 1880s he served as water commissioner.

The colorful rock formations in the park served as landmarks during the early 1870s for 20-mule team freight wagons that stopped for water.

By the 1870s, a steam engine powered pump known as the " Dublin Street Machine " at the back of the Carrollton neighborhood was used to drain that neighborhood, pumping the water out the Upperline Canal.

At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal ; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.

Several other home-made boards of southwestern Ontario origin, and dating from the 1870s, have been discovered since the 1990s.

Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, an ophthalmologist of mixed cultural heritage from Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire.

Today, Japan uses strict agnatic primogeniture, which was adopted from Prussia, by which Japan was greatly influenced in the 1870s.

The economy of the Falkland Islands, which first involved sealing, whaling and provisioning ships, became heavily dependent on sheep farming from the 1870s to 1980.

Sheep farming was then introduced, taking over from the cattle trade in the 1870s and becoming self-supporting by 1885.

For example, boric acid was widely used as a food preservative from the 1870s to the 1920s, but was banned after World War I due to its toxicity, as demonstrated in animal and human studies.

In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.

In the 1870s, deriving from uses in the California mining industry, Lester Allan Pelton developed the high efficiency Pelton wheel impulse turbine, which utilized hydropower from the high head streams characteristic of the mountainous California interior.

Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.

In France, Germany, and other European countries, socialist parties and democrats played a prominent role in forming and building up trade unions, especially from the 1870s onwards.

) The alternative technique of fractional crystallization was invented by Dmitri Mendeleev, in the form of the double ammonium nitrate tetrahydrate, which he used to separate the less-soluble lanthanum from the more-soluble didymium in the 1870s.

Shipbuilding was important, until it declined in the 1870s with the competition from steamships.

Also in the 1870s competition from Brazilian coffee and European sugar beets caused a decline in Liberian exports.

In an attempt to reverse the decline, from 1848 to the early 1870s Macau engaged in the infamous trade of coolies ( slave labourers ) as a transit port, shipping locals from southern China to Cuba, Peru, and other South American ports to work on plantations or in mines.

Indeed from the 1870s onward, the idea that history and civilization were inherently progressive, and that progress was always good ( and had no sharp breaks ), came under increasing attack.

Initially rejected from the most important commercial show of the time, the government-sponsored Paris Salon, the Impressionists organized yearly group exhibitions in commercial venues during the 1870s and 1880s, timing them to coincide with the official Salon.

In the late 1870s, Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan escaped from Kabul to take refuge in Mazar-e Sharif, which was un-affected by the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century between Afghanistan and then British India.

Ainu people | Ainu, an ethnic minority people from Japan ( between 1863 and early 1870s ).

Industrialist Collis P. Huntington ( 1821 – 1900 ) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ( C & O ) from Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River in the early 1870s.

The population of Muscat fell from 55, 000 to 8, 000 between the 1850s and 1870s.

Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe ( following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876 ), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of " English " opera, intended to supplant the French operettas ( usually performed in bad translations ) that had dominated the London stage from the mid-19th century into the 1870s.