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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2026-05-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003544b.htm person Freeman Albert Henry Delamore AACR2 Freeman, Harry 26 March 1921 4 April 2004 Place of Birth Sunderland, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death late of Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia Electrical engineer Harry Freeman played an important role in developing a Traffic Dispersion Recorder in Sydney, using some techniques from the American automatic toll ticketing equipment, to record details of the destinations and origins of a sample of calls from individual step by step exchanges. This was done to establish network design parameters. 1938 1942 Career position - Cadet draftsman, Postmaster-General's Department 1942 1945 Military service - Second World War. Flying Officer, Royal Australian Air Force 1946 1947 Career position - Engineer, Buildings Branch, Postmaster-General's Department 1947 1956 Career position - Engineer, NSW Broadcasting Section, Postmaster-General's Department [Installation and operations of the National Broadcasting Stations] 1954 1954 Award - Professional Officers Association (P.O.A.) Award of Merit - for a report on frequency allocation 1956 1960 Career position - Engineer, Transmission Planning Section, Postmaster-General's Department 1960 Career position - Supervising Engineer, Transmission Planning Section, Postmaster-General's Department [Investigation of the redesign of the Sydney Telephone Network for crossbar operation using an electronic computer] 1962 1962 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1963 1963 Award - Electrical Engineering Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia 13 Sep 1968 13 Sep 1968 Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.] 1975 1981 Career position - Supervising Engineer, Transmission and Lines Planning, Country, Postmaster-General's Department 1981 1981 Life event - Retired Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - 1975)

Awarded the Electrical Engineering Prize 1963, for the paper "An application of digital computers in telecommunication network planning", Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Transactions, vol.5, no.11, Nov 1963, pp.27-40. Mr A Gravell BSc (non-member IEAust) was a co-author.

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 'Freeman, Albert Henry Delamore (Harry)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Freeman, Albert Henry Delamore (Harry) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Electrical Engineering Prize - 1963 Award Electrical Engineering Prize - 1963 Award 1964 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 36 10-11 N82 Resource Section: Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage Australia 2024 Engineering Heritage Australia : wiki website Book: History of telephone switching in Australia 1880 to 1980 Freeman, A. H. History of telephone switching in Australia 1880 to 1980 Telecommunication Society of Australia 1980 Journal Article: An application of digital computers in telecommunication network planning Freeman, A. H.; Gravell, A. An application of digital computers in telecommunication network planning Institution of Engineers Australia 1963 Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Transactions EM5 2 27-40 Journal Article: The evolution of Junction Networks Freeman, A. H. The evolution of Junction Networks Telecommunication Society of Australia 1963 Telecommunication Journal of Australia 13 6 467-471 Journal Article: History of Telephone to 1887 Freeman, A. H. History of Telephone to 1887 New South Wales Historical Monograph No. 3, Telecommunications Society of Australia 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