Biographical entry Wait, Edric John Vallack (1901 - 1986)
- Born
- 5 July 1901
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 21 September 1986
- Occupation
- Engineer
Summary
Edric John V. Wait worked for the New South Wales Railways department for close to forty-five years.
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Events
- 1923
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1925
- Career position - Engineer with the New South Wales Railways
- 1925
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1926 - 1928
- Career position - Engineer with British Thomson Houston Co. in Rugby, UK
- 1928 - 1933
- Career position - Engineer with the NSW Railways
- 1933 - 1935
- Career position - Engineer at AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)
- 1935 - 1940
- Career position - Engineer with the Metropolitan Water Supply Board of Sydney
- 1940 - 1971
- Career position - Senior Engineer at the NSW Railways Testing Laboratory
Published resources
Online Resources
- '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
- National Library of Australia, 'Wait, Edric John Vallack', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473749. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 September 2005
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