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Previous Talks 2002 - 2008


Previous Talks for 2008

Date Location Speaker Topic
November 11, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Alan Emmerson Tools of the Instrument Maker
October 7, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Norman Heckenberg Galvanometers
September 9, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Andrew White Hanbury Brown and the birth of a new science
July 22, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Anthony Roberts Australian Electric Clocks
May 6, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Magaret Wegener Lippmann's Colour Photography
April 1, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Ian Jempson Celestial Navigation
March 4, 2008 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Simon Manley Electronics Then and Now: How the Revolution in Biology Since WWII was driven by advances in Electronics

Previous Talks for 2007

Date Location Speaker Topic
August 21, 2007 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Norman Heckenberg The Astrolabe
July 24, 2007 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Neil Boucher Prehistory of Radio
May 22, 2007 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Colin Gladstone Lighthouse Technology
April 17, 2007 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Colin Kennard Forensic Tools in Solving Art Mysteries
March 15, 2007 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Robert Holmstom Building the First Microprocessor
March 6, 2007 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Julian Holland Looking for Angelo Tornaghi

Previous Talks for 2006

Date Location Speaker Topic
August 22, 2006 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Don Dinnie An Obscure History of Solid State Electronics
July 25, 2006 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 John Mainstone Sight, Sounds and Spaces
May 9, 2006 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Norman Heckenberg The Magnetic Compass
April 4, 2006 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Richard Yeo Encyclopedias as Tool of Science: During and Since the Enlightenment
March 14, 2006 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Various Scientific Instrument Antiques Roadshow

Previous Talks for 2005

Date Location Speaker Topic
October 18, 2005 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 David Whitehead Becoming a Physicist 50 years ago
September 20, 2005 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Norman Heckenberg Einstein and the Talkies
August 23, 2005 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Lindsay Ball Spark Mechanical Calculators
May 24, 2005 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Norman Heckenberg Einstein and the Talkies
April 19, 2005 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Rex Newsome & Peter Hadgraft Crystal Wireless Receivers
March 22, 2005 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Alan Emmerson Huygens and the Pendulum Clock

Previous Talks for 2004

Date Location Speaker Topic
October 19, 2004 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Norman Heckenberg Portable Sundials
September 21, 2004 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Alan Emmerson Steel Before Science
August 24, 2004 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Rex Newsome & Peter Hadgraft Spark Transmitters and Crystal Receivers
May 25, 2004 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Astrid Vallati The Gun: The Beginning of the Industrial Age
April 20, 2004 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Alan Emmerson The Scientific Collectables of Professor Teddy Hall
March 23, 2004 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Brian Phillips Balances and Weighing

Previous Talks for 2003

Date Location Speaker Topic
October 28, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Norman Heckenberg Slide Rules
September 9, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Colin Kennard X-ray Instruments
August 19, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 George Dick Precise Length Measurement
June 24, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Peter Hadgraft & Rex Newsome Early Radio Broadcasting Technology
May 27, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Col Lynam Seismometers and Seismographs
April 29, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Chris Nurser Quartz Crystals in Electronics
March 25, 2003 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Alan Emmerson Air Data Instruments for Aeroplanes

Previous Talks for 2002

Date Location Speaker Topic
November 19, 2002 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 302 Wilber Williams 40 Years Computing at UQ
October 29, 2002 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Windsor Davies Microscopes
September 24, 2002 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Alan Emmerson Precision Clocks
August 20, 2002 Parnell Building (7) Lecture Room 222 Norman Heckenberg Vacuum Tubes

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