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Traeger, Alfred Hermann (1895 - 1980)OBE |
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| Born: 2 August 1895 Dimboola, Victoria, Australia. Died: 31 July 1980 Rosslyn Park, South Australia, Australia. | ||
| Alfred Hermann Traeger designed a transceiver for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. In 1933 he also invented a typewriter Morse keyboard, which was widely used as an accessory to the pedal sets until the advent of radio telephony. He began his engineering career with the Metropolitan Tramways Trust and the Postmaster-General's Department (1915-1923) and later formed his own company Traeger Transceivers Pty Ltd. He worked for John Flynn on Northern Territory radio experiments from 1926 and is commemorated by a sports field, a plaque and the Royal Flying Doctor Service aeroplane at Alice Springs. |
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