Hydroelectric development occurred soon after the development of the incandescent light globe and the Pelton wheel in the 1870s. Hydroelectric technologies were adopted in Australia, and Tasmania in particular, very soon after the technology was developed. The first driver of this was the electricity needs of remote mining operations that lacked access to coal. By the early 1880s, a hydro scheme was supplying electricity at a remote tin mining operation at Mount Bischoff. Other remote mining operations such as the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company copper mine in Queenstown, and the Pioneer Tin Mining Co. in eastern Tasmania, followed soon after.