Getting Started
“State of Electronics – Getting Started”
This is the first actual episode and looks at how everyone got started in electronics, how curiosity began in a life long passion.
Future episodes will cover a large number of topics including early pioneers such as Henry Sutton & Father Shaw, Telegraphy and Early Communications in Australia, AWA and Government Involvement in an Industry, Lifting the Tariffs, Valves to Transistors, Integrated Circuits and Early Computing, CSIRAC, Hobby Electronics and it’s Decline, The Rise of the Maker Movement, Education and Electronics, The Role of the Magazines, The Bionic Ear, Aerospace Electronics, Silanna Semiconductor, e-Waste and its Consequences, e-Waste and Possible Solutions, Electronic Medical Innovations in Australia, the Future of Electronics to mention just a few.
I am putting the word out that I am quite short of images, particularly about early electronics (telegraphy, Radio, Television as well as early prototypes of Blackbox Flight recorder, Pacemaker, Ultrasound, Australian manufacturing of electronics, AWA, Over the horizon radar, CSIRO, early computing and development in Australia. The topics are broad I realise but if you think you have something that you might be able to share that would be very much appreciated. In the meantime, We are continuing to search for images via WikiMedia, Australian National Archives, Universities and elsewhere, however many of these organisations now charge money for the right to use an image which we simply can’t afford. If you are able to assist us, please contact us.