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Wait, Edric John Vallack (1901 - 1986)

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Engineer

Born: 5 July 1901 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 21 September 1986.

Edric John V. Wait worked for the New South Wales Railways department for close to forty-five years.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1923 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1925 Engineer with the New South Wales Railways
1925 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Sydney
1926 - 1928 Engineer with British Thomson Houston Co. in Rugby, UK
1928 - 1933 Engineer with the NSW Railways
1933 - 1935 Engineer at AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)
1935 - 1940 Engineer with the Metropolitan Water Supply Board of Sydney
1940 - 1971 Senior Engineer at the NSW Railways Testing Laboratory

Online Sources

'Wait, Edric John Vallack', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001833p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 6 September 2005

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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