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Gervais Purcell: On assignment with Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA)

by Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

These photographs by Gervais Purcell, a commercial photographer who worked in Australia from the 1940s document a series of tests carried out by AWA for an underwater television camera.

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Two men looking at an AWA company display on board a trade ship
Set up of an AWA company display on board a trade ship
A group of men at the testing of an AWA underwater television camera
Test broadcast of the live-feed from the AWA underwater camera
Two men observing the live feed from an AWA underwater television camera
A group of women watching an AWA television aboard the ship TAIPING
A sailor and a man looking at a television aerial on board the ship TAIPING
An Australian Oriental Line sailor with a television aerial on board the ship TAIPING
Divers preparing to test an AWA underwater television camera
Divers testing an AWA underwater television camera
AWA underwater television camera about to be tested in Sydney Harbour
Man watching an AWA television on board the ship TAIPING