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Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas
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| Pioneer of radio, born in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, SE England, UK. Trained by the Marconi company as a ship's radio operator, he arrived in Australia in 1910 to demonstrate the company's equipment, and became resident engineer in the following year. In 1918 he successfully received in Sydney a morse signal from Marconi's transmitter at Caernarfon, North Wales, the first direct radio signal between the two countries. In 1924 he made the first human voice contact between Australia and England when he spoke to Marconi in England. He had already established the Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Co (AWA), becoming its managing director in 1916 and chairman in 1932. He was knighted in 1937. In 1944 he resigned from AWA to return to England as managing director of EMI, but moved back to Sydney on his retirement in 1951. |
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