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Dominion razor blade package and razors

Eric, Philip and David Waterworth as young boys with their pet called Bulldog

c. 1918

Waterworth family photograph taken in Hobart

c. 1918

The three Waterworth brothers

c. 1930

Hobart Made Lenses Will Merit High Preference: Motor executives view

late 1940s

Photo interpreters stereoscope

Photo interpreters stereoscope and case

Early advertisement for the Centaur Lens

Jan - Feb 1948 (Vol 1 no. 8)

Coated lenses

June 1949, page 490

A large piece of fused glass block from the Optical Annexe. These blocks were created to produce lenses and prisms for the war effort

Photograph taken from the RAAF Beaufort plane flight made over Hobart in 1943 to test a lens made at the Optical Annexe for the RAAF and Allied Forces for reconnaisance flights over enemy territory

1943

Photograph of Eric Waterworth (seated) and his younger brother Philip Waterworth

c. 1913

Eric Waterworth during the late 1980s

c.1989

Eric Waterworh in his office at the Optical Annexe (formerly known at the Optical Munitions Annexe 9/101)

c. 1941-1945

Eric Waterworth standing beside a collection of lenses and prisms

c. 1989

Eric Newham Waterworth

1989

Invitation to the University of Tasmania ceremony bestowing an honorary Master of Science on Eric Waterworth

University of Tasmania 1987

UT388-2(53)-Waterworth-Fenton.mp3

Eric Waterworth and Geoff Fenton talk about the Optical Annexe during the war years

University of Tasmania 1978

Invitation to attend the Australia Remembers: Eric Waterworth and the Optical Munitions Annexe exhibition

TMAG 1995

Scientists and Glamor Girls Prise Open the Prism's Secret Processes

The Tasmanian Truth 28 December 1946 (p.4)

War Lenses at College

The Mercury Newspaper 12 May 1981

Unique Gramophone Invention: self playing, self stopping, self repeating. Hobart youth's achievement

The Mercury Newspaper 24 October 1925

Optical Annexe Plans Ahead

The Mercury Newspaper 1945 - 1946

Display Reflects University's Contribution to War Effort

The Mercury Newspaper 22 August 1995

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