Corporate Body

Electrical Association of Australia (1915 - 1919)

From
1915
To
1919
Functions
Association and Society or Membership Organisation

Summary

The Electrical Association of Australia was formed as a national amalgamation of the functions of the Electrical Association of New South Wales and the Victorian Institute of Electrical Engineers, with arrangements to include other States as opportunities arose.
It formed a National Council, combined its publication of papers, and the existing State associations reformed as the Victorian section and the New South Wales section of the Electrical Association of Australia.

The Association took the first steps towards standardisation in the Electrical Industry, including the acceptance of uniform wiring rules in all States.

In 1919, the Electrical Association of Australia and its sections amalgamated with other existing engineering associations, to form the "Institution of Engineers, Australia" as one of the Institution's eleven 'Foundation Societies', and its members transferred to the Institution as foundation Associate Members.

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A national institute or association of electrical engineers was initially proposed in 1910, but no agreement could be reached, partly because of the limits of incorporation in one State. This was solved in 1915 by creating a National Council, and leaving each state association to run its own affairs.

Timeline

 1915 - 1919 Electrical Association of Australia
       1919 - Institution of Engineers, Australia

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Published resources

Journal Articles

  • Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Prizes', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (1921), 48-49, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.628144336290190. 'Prizes - Electrical Association Premium', full information about the fund and award processes, p.48. Details
  • Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Fifty-seventh Annual Report [Annual Report 1976]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 49 (12) (1977), 25-32. 'Awards of the Institution - Electrical Engineering Award to Mr P M Roberts for his paper "The Application of Phase Locked Loop Techniques to the Generation of Narrowband Continuous Phase Binary Frequency Shift Keying" published in the Electrical Engineering Transactions 1976', p.26. Details

Resources

  • McInnes, Ken, Institution of Engineers Australia - Foundation Societies' Publications Index, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2018. Details

See also

Ken McInnes

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