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Eric Newham Waterworth

1989

Eric Waterworth standing beside a collection of lenses and prisms

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 during the late 1980s

c.1989

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

c. 1913

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

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

Coated lenses

June 1949, page 490

Non reflecting coating of glass structures leaflet

EN Waterworth

Waterworth infant respirator advertisement

EN Waterworth

Respected Tasmanian Inventor Dies Age 85

The Mercury Newspaper 29 December 1990

Noted Inventor Dies

The Examiner Newspaper 29 December 1990

Advertisement by EN Waterworth business for the F/3.5 enlarger lens

Professional Photography Year Unknown (p. 29)

Early advertisement for the Centaur Lens

Jan - Feb 1948 (Vol 1 no. 8)

Lens Coating

Hobbies Illustrated June 1949, page 491

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

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

University of Tasmania 1978

Australia Remembers: War Industry in State

The Mercury August 1995

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

The Tasmanian Truth 28 December 1946 (p.4)

One State One Nation - series

The Mercury Newspaper 1 January 2001 (p. 19)

Display Reflects University's Contribution to War Effort

The Mercury Newspaper 22 August 1995

Fine Job Universities Are Doing In The War

Herald (Melbourne) 12 April, 1943

Birth of an Australian Industry - precision optics

IES Lighting Review June 1948 (p. 20)

Optical Annexe Plans Ahead

The Mercury Newspaper 1945 - 1946

Photo interpreters stereoscope and case

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