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Wireless Priest: Archibald Shaw and the Maritime Wireless Telegraph Company

Wireless Priest: Archibald Shaw and the Maritime Wireless Telegraph Company

Ryan, Matthew

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & OceaniaTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1763637506
ISBN13: 9781763637504
Publisher: Studio20
Published: Jul 11 2024
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Around 1910 a forward thinking Catholic priest, Archibald Shaw, was experimenting with spark-gap wireless about a decade before broadcast radio took-off. He founded an engineering factory in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. Shaw was a missionary priest and his intention was to use the wireless sets he manufactured to keep in touch with distant missionaries throughout New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. He hoped that profits from his factory might bring his order's missionary accounts out of debt as well. Within a short time his business won a large tender to construct Australia's first Coastal Wireless Service established by the government in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster of 1912.

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