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Optical Munitions Panel (1940 - 1945)

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Books

  • The Concise Australian Reference Book, Golden Press in association with Daniel O'Keefe Publishing, Drummoyne, NSW, 1986.
  • Hartnett, Sir Laurence, Big Wheels and Little Wheels, 2nd edn, Gold Star Publications, Hawthorn, Victoria, 1973.

Book Chapters

  • Cassidy, Jill, 'Eric Waterworth: an inventive Tasmanian', in Exhibition Catalogue, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 1990.
  • Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', in Australia in the War of 1939-1945: The Role of Science and Industry, vol. 5, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1958, p. ch. 12, series 4: civil.

Conference Papers

  • Gascoigne, S.C.B., 'History of Australian Astronomy', in Proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists, vol. 5 of no. 4, 1984, pp. 597-605.

Journals

  • Davies , Susan (ed.), 'R .v.d.R. Woolley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 1, 1984, 59-69 pp.

Journal Articles

  • Bolton, H.C., 'J.J. McNeill and the Development of Optical Research in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 4, 1983, pp. 55-70.
  • Bolton, H.C., 'Some themes in the development of optics in Australia', Australian Physicist, vol. 21, December, 1984, pp. 285-288.
  • Bolton, H.C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist, vol. 27, no. 3, March, 1990, pp. 31-43.
  • Coogan, Clive, 'The Rise and Rise of the Australian Scientific Instrument Industry', Search, vol. 20, no. 3, September/October, 1989.
  • Hartnett, Sir Laurence, 'Recollections of the Optical Munitions Panel in Australia', Australian Physicist, vol. 22, May, pp. 158-160.
  • Woolley, R., 'Mount Stromlo Observatory', RAAS, vol. 1, no. 3, November, 1968, pp. 53-57.

Newspaper Articles

  • Canberra Times, 28 November 1944, p. 3.
  • McKay, H.C., 'Magic eyes of war and peace', Smith's Weekly, 18 November 1939, p. 13.

Reports

  • The University of Melbourne Annual Reports 1939-1946, Melbourne, Australia, 1939-1946.

Online Sources

 

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