Wood, Herbert Boyne (1909 - 2007)

Summary

Herbert Wood OBE FIEAust was a radio engineer who took a leading role in research and development of aircraft radio communication and navigation in Australia before the Second World War. He later was Chief Engineer and Technical Director, S.T.C. Ltd in Australia, Vice-President and Area Technical Director I.T.T. Far East & Pacific Inc. in Hong Kong, then Managing Director, I.T.T. Far East & Pacific Inc. in Malaysia.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1945 in recognition of his role during the war in the south-west Pacific.

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Chronology

1926

Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1929

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney

1930 - 1931

Career position - Radio Design Engineer, Philips Lamps Australasia Ltd., Sydney

1931

Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Sydney

1931 - 1933

Career position - Research Officer, Radio Research Board, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

1933 - 1936

Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Engineering Research Fellow, University of Sydney

1935

Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

c. 1935

Career event - Member (MInstRE(Aust)), Institution of Radio Engineers (Australia)

c. 1935

Career event - Associate Member (AMIRE), Institution of Radio Engineers

1936

Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1936

Award - Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers Australia

1936 - 1941

Career position - Chief Radio Transmission Engineer, S.T.C. Ltd., 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

19 Jul 1945

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - ARMY - Distinguished service in the SW Pacific

1946

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1946 - 1962

Career position - Chief Engineer and Technical Director, S.T.C. Ltd., Sydney

1957 - 1958

Career position - Chairman, Sydney Division, Institution of Engineers Australia

1962 - 1968

Career position - Vice-President and Area Technical Director, International Telephone and Telegraph (I.T.T.) Far East & Pacific Inc., Hong Kong

1968 - 1971

Career position - Managing Director, International Telephone and Telegraph (I.T.T.) Far East & Pacific Inc., Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur

13 Sep 1968

Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Green, A. L.; Wood, H. B., 'A field intensity set', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1) (1933), 6-13. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twenty-third Annual Report [1942]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15 (2) (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
• Martyn, D. F.; Wood, H. B., 'A frequency recorder', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 332-336. Details
• Wood, H. B., 'A method of obtaining uniform amplification in radio frequency coupling circuits', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1932), 149-158. Details
• Wood, H. B., 'Aircraft radio-communication and navigation', Radio Review of Australia (1935), 3-13. 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 (11) (1936), 403-414. Details
• Wood, H. B., 'The electron and the engineer [Chairman's Address, Sydney Division]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 30 (9) (1958), 270-272. 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