A001342
revised
AU-VU:EOAS
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
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AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Corporate Body
created
2001-08-24
human
Ailie Smith
updated
2025-11-05
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001342b.htm
corporateBody
Plessey Australia Pty Ltd
AACR2
c. 1939
Start Place
Meadowbank, New South Wales, Australia
Location
Meadowbank, New South Wales
Manufacturing Industry
Defence Industries
Communications
Plessey Australia Pty Ltd worked with the Wood Technology Division of the Forestry Commission of New South Wales to produce the 'Computermatic' machine stress grader which became widely used in Australia and overseas. Over the years they broadened their area of expertise and went on to investigate reception of high quality aerial reconnaissance pictures and ship-board sonar system. Plessey Australia Pty Ltd was eventually taken over by GEC Marconi Systems, a subsidiary of GEC Marconi (UK) and continues to produce piezoelectric ceramics, mainly for military use such as in underwater acoustic detection devices.
Trove
'Plessey Australia Pty Ltd', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Plessey Australia Pty Ltd
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Online
Melbourne
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
2000