Person
Wood, Herbert Boyne (1909 - 2007)
OBE
- Born
- 21 June 1909
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 2 January 2007
- Occupation
- Radio engineer and Business executive
Summary
Herbert Wood worked as a radio engineer in Australia and held executive positions in the Malaysian and Hong Kong branches of the company I.T.T. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1945.
Details
Chronology
- 1929
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1930 - 1931
- Career position - Radio Design Engineer at Philips Lamps Australasia Ltd. in Sydney
- 1931
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Sydney
- 1931 - 1933
- Career position - Research Officer at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Research Board
- 1933 - 1936
- Career position - Research Fellow in Engineering, University of Sydney
- 1936
- Award - Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1936 - 1941
- Career position - Chief Radio Transmission Engineer at TS.TC. Ltd. in Sydney
- 1938
- Education - Master of Engineering (ME), University of Sydney
- 1942 - 1945
- Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant-colonel with the Royal Australian Engineers in the South West Pacific region
- 1945
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1946 - 1962
- Career position - Chief Engineer and Technical Director of TC.T.C Ltd.
- 1962 - 1968
- Career position - Vice-President and Area Technical Director of I.T.T. Far East & Pacific Inc. in Hong Kong
- 1968 - 1971
- Career position - Managing Director of I.T.T. Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twenty-third Annual Report [1942]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15 (1943), 35-51. 'Prizes - Electrical Association Premium: (1936 Award) to Mr H B Wood, BE BSc AMIEAust, Sydney Division, for his paper "The Design of an Automatic Variable-Frequency Radio Transmitter with Automatically Tuned Receiver, for Use in the Investigation of Radio Propagation in the Ionosphere"', p.37. Details
- Wood, H. B., 'The Design of an Automatic Variable-Frequency Radio Transmitter with Automatically Tuned Receiver, for Use in the Investigation of Radio Propagation in the Ionosphere', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 403-. Details
Resources
- 'Wood, Herbert Boyne (1909-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475425. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Wood, Herbert Boyne', 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/P001847p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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