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CSIRO Division of Electrotechnology (1945 - 1962)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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Function: Industrial or Scientific Research

Location: Australia

Beginning in 1939 as the Electrotechnology Section of the National Standards Laboratory, the Division of Electrotechnology emerged in 1945, later joining with the Division of Metrology to form the Division of Applied Physics, in the early 1960s.

Previous and Subsequent Entities

1939 - 1945 CSIR Electrotechnology Section
       1945 - 1962 CSIRO Division of Electrotechnology
             1962 - 1974 CSIRO Division of Applied Physics
                   1974 - 1979 CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory
                         1979 - 1996 CSIRO Division of Applied Physics
                               1996 - CSIRO Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics

Controlling

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )

Superior

CSIR National Standards Laboratory, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1939 - 1973)

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'Primary description of agency CA 4377; CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+4377. [ Details ]

See Also

Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A000573. [ Details ]

Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.

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