Person

Traeger, Alfred Hermann (1895 - 1980)

OBE

Born
2 August 1895
Dimboola, Victoria, Australia
Died
31 July 1980
Rosslyn Park, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Engineer

Summary

Alfred Traeger designed a transceiver for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. In 1933 he also invented a typewriter Morse keyboard, which was widely used as an accessory to the pedal sets until the advent of radio telephony. He began his engineering career with the Metropolitan Tramways Trust and the Postmaster-General's Department (1915-1923) and later formed his own company Traeger Transceivers Pty Ltd. He worked for John Flynn on Northern Territory radio experiments from 1926 and is commemorated by a sports field, a plaque and the Royal Flying Doctor Service aeroplane at Alice Springs.

Details

Chronology

1915
Education - Associate Diploma completed at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries
1915 - 1923
Career position - Metropolitan Tramways Trust and the Postmaster-General's Department
c. 1923
Career position - Hannan Bros Ltd, Adelaide
1944
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Published resources

Books

  • McKay, Fred, Traeger: the Pedal Radio Man (Moorooka, Queensland: Boolarong Press, 1995), 108 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Payne, Pauline, 'Alf Traeger and the pedal radio', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 46 (2018), 85-98. Details

Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_t.html. Details
  • Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. pp.122-123. Details
  • Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'All Praise Pedal Power - Alf Traeger' p.47. Details

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