Person
Callow, Joseph Royal (1910 - 1947)
- Born
- 29 January 1910
Warragul, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 6 August 1947
Parkville, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Electrical engineer
Summary
Joseph Callow was an electrical engineer with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria 1932-1947.
Details
Masters thesis topic for Joseph Royal Callow thought to be: "The alternating vortices in the wake of cylinders in a stream of fluid", but not yet located.
Chronology
- 1927
- Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1932
- Education - Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE), University of Melbourne
- 1932 - 1939
- Career position - Engineer, State Electricity Commission of Victoria
- 1936
- Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1940 - 1945
- Military service - Second World War. Major, Australian Army Design Directorate
- 1940 - 1945
- Military service - Major, Australian Army Design Directorate
- 1941
- Education - Master of Electrical Engineering (MEE), University of Melbourne
- 1945
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1945 - 1947
- Career position - Engineer, State Electricity Commission of Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Bate, Ernest; Callow, Joseph Royal, 'The quantitative determination of the energy involved in the vibration of cylinders in an air stream', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (5) (1934), 149-162. Details
- Prentice, Sydney Arthur; Callow, Joseph Royal; Miller, William Walter, 'Radio interference from high tension transmission lines', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 7 (7) (1935), 253-260. Details
Resources
- CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B883, VX14650', B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6220176. Details
- 'Callow, Joseph Royal (1910-1947)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475437. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Callow, Joseph Royal', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001618p.htm. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 11 November 2025
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