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Display Reflects University's Contribution to War Effort

The Mercury Newspaper 22 August 1995

Scientists want Scope for Research: Change-Over at Hobart Optical Annexe

The Mercury Newspaper 22 May 1946

Industrial Development in Commonwealth

The Mercury Newspaper 9 February 1944

Optical Annexe Plans Ahead

The Mercury Newspaper 1945 - 1946

War Effort Developed into High Tech Skill

The Southern Star 5 July 1989

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

The Tasmanian Truth 28 December 1946 (p.4)

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

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

University of Tasmania 1978

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

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 a photo interpreters stereoscope

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

Early advertisement for the Centaur Lens

Jan - Feb 1948 (Vol 1 no. 8)

A University of Tasmania physics student or an employee working at the Optical Munitions Annexe, Hobart during World War Two

1940 - 1945

A University of Tasmania physics student or an employee working at the Optical Munitions Annexe, Hobart during World War Two

1940 - 1945

Hobart Made Lenses Will Merit High Preference: Motor executives view

late 1940s

Prisms produced at Hobarts Optical Munitions Annexe 9/101 during World War Two

1942 - 1945

Original plan of the second storey on the Optical Munitions Annexe

c. 1942 - 1943

Front of the Optical Munitions Annexe 9/101

c. 1944

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The dome prism produced at the Optical Annexe during the war for use in gunsights and binoculars

1942 - 1945

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A right-angle prism with a concave lens on one face

1942 - 1945

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A right-angled pentagonal prism produced at the Hobart Optical Munitions Annexe during World War Two

1942 - 1945

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A a right-angled pentagonal prism from the World War Two production line at the Optical Munitions Annexe 9/101, Hobart

1942 - 1945

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A right angled prism produced at the Optical Annexe, Hobart, during World War Two

1942 - 1945

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