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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002652b.htm person Taylor George Augustine AACR2 1 August 1872 20 January 1928 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Journalist George Taylor was a craftsman and journalist. During the course of his life he had a number of interests, including radio, telephony, martial technology, town planning and labour-saving devices in the home.

After a stint working as a cartoonist in the 1890s, George Augustine Taylor trained as a builder and in 1900ca produced 'bagasse', a cement-plaster. He became interested in town planning and helped to found the Institute of Local Government Engineers of Australasia, the Aerial League of Australia (1909), and the Town Planning Association of New South Wales (1913). Taylor then shifted focus to martial technology and established a factory to make light craft, and worked on military uses of radio and telephony. He founded the Wireless Institute of New South Wales in 1910 and was partly responsible for the 1927 Federal royal commission into wireless. During World War I he joined the Intelligence Section General Staff and began publishing "Soldier" in 1916. Taylor also helped found the Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919), Australian Inventions Encouragement Board (1922) and the Association for Developing Wireless in Australia (1923). He later worked on proto-television, achieving colour transmission in the mid-1920s. Around that time he stopped publication of "Soldier" and began publication of "Australian Home" in 1925.

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 'Taylor, George Augustine', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Taylor, George Augustine Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Taylor, George Augustine (1872-1928), craftsman and journalist Roe, Michael Taylor, George Augustine (1872-1928), craftsman and journalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 178-179 Journal Article: Presidential address Stewart, J. Douglas Presidential address 1928 Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 62 1-59 Journal Article: Memoirs Memoirs 1928 Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 9 262-282 Book Section: Chapter 16: Aeronautical engineering McArthur, Ian Chapter 16: Aeronautical engineering Crows Nest, New South Wales Engineers Australia 1989 Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney Don Fraser 299-318 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 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