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Downing, Harold Leslie (1913 - )

Electrical engineer and Teacher

Born: 10 January 1913 Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia

Harold Leslie Downing entered professional life as a science teacher. Within two years of graduating he moved to AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) to take up a post as an engineer. Dowling remained at AWA Ltd. until he retired in 1978 – almost forty-two years after starting there.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1934 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Western Australia
1935 - 1936 Science Teacher in Perth
1936 Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Western Australia
1936 - 1974 Engineer at AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)
1975 - 1978 Manager of the Engineering Products Division of AWA Ltd.

Online Sources

'Downing, Harold Leslie', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001638p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 26 May 2005

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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