Person

Wait, Edric John Vallack (1901 - 1986)

Born: 5 July 1901
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 21 September 1986
Occupation: Engineer

Summary

Edric Wait worked for the New South Wales Railways department for close to forty-five years.

Details

Chronology

1923: Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
1925: Career position - Engineer, New South Wales Railways
1925: Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Sydney
1926 - 1928: Career position - Engineer, British Thomson Houston Co. in Rugby, UK
1928 - 1933: Career position - Engineer, New South Wales Railways
1933 - 1935: Career position - Engineer, AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)
1935 - 1940: Career position - Engineer, Metropolitan Water Supply Board of Sydney
1940 - 1971: Career position - Senior Engineer, NSW Railways Testing Laboratory

Published resources

Resources

'Wait, Edric John Vallack (1901-1986)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473749. Details

Resource Sections

'Wait, Edric John Vallack', 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/P001833p.htm. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018

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