Jenvey, Henry Walter (c. 1851 - 1932)

Summary

Henry Jenver, MIEE, was the Post Office Electrical Engineer for Victoria, and was a pioneer in radio-telegraphy in Victoria and Australia. He designed and built equipment to enable radio-telegraphy communication in 1900, and the first shore to ship communication in Australia in 1901. Later he helped establish regular wireless telegraphy between the colonies of Victoria and Tasmania.

As the electrical engineer to the Victorian Post and Telegraph Department, he wrote a major book "Practical telegraphy" in two parts, that for many years after Federation, through many editions, became the recognised text book for the use of officers of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Departments throughout Australia.

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Chronology

1866 - 1885

Career position - Operator, Telegraph Department, Colony of Victoria

9 Dec 1874

Career event - Associate (ASTE), Society of Telegraph Engineers, London

1885 - 1899

Career position - Electrician, Telegraph Department, Colony of Victoria

24 Nov 1887

Career event - Associate (ASTEE), Society of Telegraph-Engineers and Electricians, London

1897

Publication - Book: "Practical telegraphy : duplex, quadruplex, testing"

1899 -

Career position - Telegraph engineer, and Chief electrician, Telegraph Department, Colony of Victoria / State of Victoria

c. 1900

Career position - Telegraph Adviser, Western Australian Government

1901

Publication - Book: "Practical telegraphy : a guide for the use of officers of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Departments"

10 Jan 1901

Career event - Member (MIEE), Institution of Electrical Engineers, London

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Published resources

Books

• Jenvey, Henry Walter, Practical telegraphy : duplex, quadruplex, testing (Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer, 1897), 105 pp. Details
• Jenvey, Henry Walter, Practical telegraphy : a guide for the use of officers of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Departments (1904), 451 pp. Details

Edited Books

• Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, Ann G. eds, A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of biography. Volume 1: A-K (Canberra: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), 403 pp, https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/files/ncb/documents/A%20Biographical%20Register%201788-1939%20Vol%201%20A-K.pdf. p.370. Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Obituary [Henry Walter Jenvey]', The Argus (1932), 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4463521. Details
• 'Telegraph and wireless. Early experimenter's death [Henry Walter Jenvey]', The Argus (1932), 7, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4463703. Details