Person

Freeman, Albert Henry Delamore (Harry) (1921 - 2004)

Born
26 March 1921
Sunderland, New South Wales, Australia
Died
4 April 2004
late of Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Electrical engineer
Alternative Names
  • Freeman, Harry

Summary

Harry Freeman played an important role in developing a Traffic Dispersion Recorder in Sydney, using some techniques from the American automatic toll ticketing equipment, to record details of the destinations and origins of a sample of calls from individual step by step exchanges. This was done to establish network design parameters.

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1938 - 1942
Career position - Cadet draftsman, Postmaster-General's Department
1942 - 1945
Military service - Second World War. Flying Officer, Royal Australian Air Force
1946 - 1947
Career position - Engineer, Buildings Branch, Postmaster-General's Department
1947 - 1956
Career position - Engineer, NSW Broadcasting Section, Postmaster-General's Department [Installation and operations of the National Broadcasting Stations]
1954
Award - Professional Officers Association (P.O.A.) Award of Merit - for a report on frequency allocation
1956 - 1960
Career position - Engineer, Transmission Planning Section, Postmaster-General's Department
1960 -
Career position - Supervising Engineer, Transmission Planning Section, Postmaster-General's Department [Investigation of the redesign of the Sydney Telephone Network for crossbar operation using an electronic computer]
1962
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1963
Award - Electrical Engineering Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia
13 Sep 1968
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
1975 - 1981
Career position - Supervising Engineer, Transmission and Lines Planning, Country, Postmaster-General's Department
1981
Life event - Retired

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Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

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