Person
Wragge, Harry Stewart
AM FTSE HonFIEAust
- Occupation
- Electrical engineer
Summary
Harry Wragge, AM FTSE MEngSc BEE HonFIEAust, worked for the Australian Post Office Research Laboratories on digital switching and transmission. The results began to appear as hardware in the network almost twenty years later and soon after that Wragge became Director of the Laboratories, continuing as director until his retirement in
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Chronology
- 1952
- Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1955
- Career event - Graduate Member (GradIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1959
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1968
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
- 1976 - 1980
- Career position - Chairman / Member, National Committee on Electronics and Telecommunications, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
- 1989
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to telecommunications technology
- 1990
- Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1991
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - For service to Australian society in telecommunications, information technology and computer science
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Champion of the cause [Kernot Memorial Medal]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 62 (24) (1990), 38. 1990 Kernot Memorial Medal was awarded to Harry Wragge, director of Telecom Research Laboratories. [includes biographical notes]. Details
- Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Six new Honorary Fellows [Gordon Colebatch, Robert J. Mierisch, Ian Shedden, Walter Stamm, John Paul Wild, Harry S. Wragge]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 63 (2) (1991), 38. Details
Resources
- 'Wragge, H. S.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475722. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_w.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 1 June 2023
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