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Radio mast and Sir Ernest Fisk's home Lucania, Wahroonga 1918

By
Sam Hood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[hood_07681 / Home and Away 7681]

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Hood, Sam

State Library of New South Wales

Commercial radio

The first commercial radio station in Sydney went to air in 1923, and by the mid-1920s there were a range of stations broadcasting politics, religion and sport, as well as friendly entertainment. By World War II the sector was promoting its charitable and social endeavours. The challenge from television in the 1950s was met with improved news, live coverage and talkback.

Federation architecture

Radio

Residential building

Communications

Lucania

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Home of Ernest Fisk at the corner of Stuart and Cleveland Streets Wahroonga, which received the first radio signal between England and Australia.

Fisk, Ernest

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Radio engineer who promoted the potential of wireless communications and was the founding director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd.

Wahroonga

Upper-north shore residential suburb with an Aboriginal name meaning 'our home'. Orchards and large estates gradually gave way to suburban development on leafy green streets, but it still retains a natural bushland setting in its residential areas.

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