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<abstract>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 Director of the Telecom (later Telstra) Research Laboratories (TRL), continuing as director until his retirement in 1992</abstract>
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Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1987 - )
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Kernot Memorial Medal, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne (1926 - )
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Research Laboratories, Postmaster-General's Department
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Wragge, H. S.
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