Unique Gramophone Invention: self playing, self stopping, self repeating. Hobart youth's achievement
Eric Waterworth's first invention at the age of 20 is later picked up by a Sydney company and then in England where he works to advise the company in the mechanics of his invention
The Mercury Newspaper
24 October 1925
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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EW 2017/116
Catalogue to the Eric Waterworth: an inventive Tasmanian exhibition
Exhibition researched and presented by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Oct 1990. The exhibition launch was just 12 weeks before Eric died. The portrait on the front of the cover is owned by the Waterworth family
QVMAG
October 1990
QVMAG and the Eric Waterworth Collection. The University of Tasmania does not hold copyright on all site materials. Contact us for further dealings
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EW 2017/1113