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I Dream of a World: The Story of a Radical Engineer

I Dream of a World: The Story of a Radical Engineer

Nyland, Berenice

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresPolitical Biographies

ISBN10: 0646709534
ISBN13: 9780646709536
Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
Published: Sep 5 2000
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is about Don Atkinson, an electrical engineer and political radical who combined his engineering skills and Marxism to lead a full and exciting life. He was involved with one of Australia's first electric car projects and became an advocate for solar and wind power as early as the 1960s. He was a unionist, a member of the Communist Party and dedicated years to supporting the Gurindji struggle for land rights. He was an admirer of Kwame Nkrumah and went to post-colonial Ghana to work with a renowned English physicist who had been jailed for giving atomic research secrets to the Soviet Union. He worked intermittently in Northern Nigeria between 1966 and the 1980s. In his last decade he became interested in designing brushless motors. This interest led to an Australian Research Council grant. The book is based on accounts Don left including letters, official and personal, minutes of meetings, campaign materials, financial records, newspaper cuttings, journal articles, newsletters, personal memories and his ASIO files.

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