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50” lens on a HS 300 Vinten 35mm camera on a manual tracking mount

1950 - 1955

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50" lens under test at Mount Lofty Lookout

1950 - 1955

50" lens testing using a rebuilt radar dish mount and with two operators where one followed the azimuth movement and the other the elevation. Designed to test better tracking of aircraft and missile interception

1950 - 1955

Eric Waterworth looks on as two researchers look at the photo interpreters stereoscope

Photo interpreters stereoscope

Photo interpreters stereoscope and case

Photograph of a photo interpreters stereoscope

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

Eric Waterworth standing beside a collection of lenses and prisms

c. 1989

scott-UT-388-2-17.mp3

Bruce Scott talks about his time in the University Physics Department and in particular his early student and lecturing years

University of Tasmania c. 1980

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

War Effort Developed into High Tech Skill

The Southern Star 5 July 1989

Bargain Prized Star Gazing

The Mercury Newspaper

Industrial Development in Commonwealth

The Mercury Newspaper 9 February 1944

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

The Mercury Newspaper 22 May 1946

Display Reflects University's Contribution to War Effort

The Mercury Newspaper 22 August 1995

Annexe Set our Wartime Sights

The Mercury Newspaper 21 May 1986

One State One Nation - series

The Mercury Newspaper 1 January 2001 (p. 19)

Large Wartime Increase in State's Production

The Mercury Newspaper 16 MAY 1946

Tasmanian gains grip on advances in lens manufacture

The Mercury Newspaper

Australia Remembers: War Industry in State

The Mercury August 1995

Noted Inventor Dies

The Examiner Newspaper 29 December 1990

Finest Forms of Optics: Tasmanian Work

The Examiner 11 March 1943

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