Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The Research Laboratories of the Postmaster-General's Department
- In
- Telecommunication Journal of Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 14, no. 2, Oct 1963, pp. 160-164
- Url
- https://www.coxhill.com/trlhistory/media/Telecommmunication%20Journal%20of%20Australia/The%20Telecommunication%20Journal%20of%20Australia%20Vol%2014.%20No%202%20OCTOBER%201963.pdf
- Description
A brief biography and photograph of the author in included on p.169
- Abstract
In spite of the large resources of scientific manpower and facilities that are devoted to telecommunications research in overseas countries, the Postmaster-General's Department has found it advantageous to maintain its own independent research and development group so that it is in a position to contribute to its own technical advancement in those areas where overseas research and development or local industrial development does not adequately meet the needs of the Administration. The Laboratories must of course be geared to the resources available on the one hand, and to the unsatisfied needs of the Department on the other. This means that the Laboratories do not attempt to carry out research that can be done more effectively elsewhere, nor attempt to develop systems or apparatus if suitable items are available for purchase from commercial sources at economic rates. It does mean however, as experience has shown, that there are many areas where research and development effort is necessary by the Department, and its Research Laboratories have the responsibility to provide this effort.