Corporate Body
Telectronics Pty Ltd (1963 - 1996)
- From
- 1963
Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia - To
- 1996
- Functions
- Pharmaceuticals or Medical Aids
- Location
- Lane Cove, New South Wales
Summary
Telectronics was Australia's first successful high-tech medical electronics company manufacturing DC defibrillators, cardiac monitors and implantable cardiac pacemakers. Following two years of research and development the first pacemaker production facility was established in 1965. Development of DC defibrillators and heart monitors began earlier. Telectronics early research and development was funded by its founder, chairman and managing director Noel Gray, and his supporters. In 1966, after additionally developing electrodes and leads, the first pacemaker sales commenced. From then on (until its demise in 1996) Telectronics was responsible for equipping Australian hospitals' coronary care wards with cost effective monitoring and defibrillation equipment, and for advances which expanded the quality and scope of pacing therapy.
Related entries
Archival resources
Private hands (contact Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre)
- Telectronics - unpublished manuscript, 1987; Private hands (contact Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre). Details
Published resources
Books
- Epstein, June, The Story of the Bionic Ear (Hyland House, 1989). Details
- Gray, Noel Desmond and Gray, Christopher John, The early years of Telectronics (Bayview, N.S.W: C.J. Gray, 1993), 22 pp. Details
Reports
- Upstill, Garrett; Steele, Jack; Wright, Jon, Biomaterials: Research directions for CSIRO (Canberra ACT: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 1990), 54 pp. https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS15701.pdf. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477136. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 20 April 2000, Last modified: 25 April 2024
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