Green camera filter
Inscribed on the stainless steel casing is 'Waterworth Hobart G15'. The green filter brings out its own colour when used in a camera and the 1.5 means that it gives 1.5 stops of extra exposure
EN Waterworth
Donated by Geoff Harrisson, 2017. Part of the Eric Waterworth Collection, University of Tasmania
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Original plan of the second storey on the Optical Munitions Annexe
Eric Waterworths original working plan of the expanded Annexe which was originally constructed as a single storey building in April 1941 but space was tight almost immediately as orders for prisms and lenses for the war effort quickly increased. The second storey was added in 1943. <a href="http://waterworth.omeka.net/items/show/186">This photograph</a> shows the front of the building with the newly added floor
c. 1942 - 1943
From a Private Collection. The University of Tasmania does not hold copyright on all site materials. Contact us for further dealings
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Loose lenses
Small range of loose lenses of varying sizes that were designed and manufactured at the Optical Annexe or its later business, EN Waterworth in Hobart. Some are chipped
EN Waterworth
From 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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Examples of the use of Waterworth lens spotlight-styled logo created for the early slide projector range
Clearly drawing inspiration from light and optics, the coloured (red and then later blue) W is spot-lit inside a projector-style lens. The W also symbolises a filament. There are similarities in its postwar style to the Batman logo which was created just a few years before the W logo was designed. The EN Waterworth business commenced soon after the end of World War Two, seguing from making optical lenses, prisms and instruments for the Allied Forces, to designing and producing slide projectors for education departments throughout Australia
EN Waterworth
1948 - 1960s
From 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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Price List 1962
Catalogue of EN Waterworth products and their prices
EN Waterworth
1962
From 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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Price List 1956
Catalogue of EN Waterworth products and their prices
EN Waterworth
1956
From 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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Dominion razor blade package and razors
Unused individually wrapped razor blades. Upon his return from England in 1931 Eric Waterworth worked with his father, as a manager in a local business, Nettlefold & Waterworth, manufacturing razor blades. It is believed to be Australia's first razor-blade manufacturing business.
Blades and the Green Cover: From the Eric Waterworth Collection. The University of Tasmania does not hold copyright on all site materials. Contact us for further dealings. Larger Red Packaging: From a private collection
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The war days bore fruit
An article about the achievements of Eric Waterworth including some biographical details
Film Monthly
November 1951
Copyright Film Monthly
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Eric Waterworth looks on as two researchers look at the photo interpreters stereoscope
Photograph taken inside the University of Tasmania Domain campus Optical Munitions Annexe, Hobart. If you have any further information about the two students or researchers in the photograph then we'd like to hear from you
From 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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Photo interpreters stereoscope
Designed by Prof S Carey, from the University of Tasmanias geology department, and Eric Waterworth. They had worked together and designed, collaborated and made equipment for geology students and researchers since the early 1930s
From 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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Photo interpreters stereoscope and case
Designed by EN Waterworth in association with Prof S Carey from the university's geology department and for use by his students and researchers and also other government surveyors
From 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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Optical Annexe Plans Ahead
Article about the change in operations at the Optical Munitions Annexe from wartime production to peacetime activities
The Mercury Newspaper
1945 - 1946
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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Birth of an Australian Industry - precision optics
Article about the successes at the University of Tasmania and its partner business EN Waterworth during World War Two and the peace time in production and output
IES Lighting Review
June 1948 (p. 20)
Copyright IES Lighting Review
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Advertisement for Waterworth Lenses
Advertisement for Waterworth lenses in a photography magazine showcasing an Antares lenses
Professional Photography
1940 - 1960
Copyright Professional Photography
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Industrial Development in Commonwealth
Article about Eric Waterworths return from his wartime trip to USA and UK about optical munitions research and his concern about continuing with research so the Germans do not defeat the Allied Forces
The Mercury Newspaper
9 February 1944
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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Scientists want Scope for Research: Change-Over at Hobart Optical Annexe
Article about segueing the Hobart Annexe from wartime activities to a private enterprise building on and augmenting the research into optics through its successful association with the University of Tasmania
The Mercury Newspaper
22 May 1946
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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Hobarts Optical Industry
An article by Eric Waterworth about the establishment of the Annexe, formerly named the Ministry of Munitions Annexe 9/101, and the development of lenses for the war effort
EN Waterworth
February 1946 (p. 55)
Copyright The APR
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Annexe Set our Wartime Sights
Newspaper article about the Optical Annexes achievements and a photograph of Eric Waterworth with three other employees from the Annexe during the war
The Mercury Newspaper
21 May 1986
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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Advertisement for an EN Waterworth slide projector
Provides details about the Air-Jet 500 model and the ability to test it and view it in a room in Melbourne before you buy it
The Herald Sun
21 March 1960
Courtesy of the Herald Sun, Melbourne
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Advertisement for the Waterworth 500 fan-cooled slide projector
The Melbourne Sun
22 October 1960
Courtesy the Melbourne Sun
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Optical, but no illusion
Large double-page article about the wartime activities at the Hobart Optical Annexe and includes images of lens making
The Mercury Newspaper
20 August 1952
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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Finest Forms of Optics: Tasmanian Work
Newspaper article about Mr Hartnets visit to Tasmania and also about the first trial shipment of lens sets made at the Hobart Annexe and shipped to the USA to assist their lens development and compare specifications
The Examiner
11 March 1943
Courtesy of the Examiner, Launceston
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War Effort Developed into High Tech Skill
Article about Ian Longmans work at the Optical Annexe and later with EN Waterworth. He bought the business from Eric in 1962 when he retired. This article talks about Ian Longmans retirement plans. Includes a photograph of Ian Longman and the new owner Catherine Hills
The Southern Star
5 July 1989
Copyright the Southern Star
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Large Wartime Increase in State's Production
Mr Cosgrove, the Tasmannian Premier talks about the states production costs and Eric Waterworth comments on the importance of the continued research into optics for the state
The Mercury Newspaper
16 MAY 1946
Courtesy of the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart
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