History of the Telstra Research Laboratories
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Open Days
TRL conducted open days in 1960, 1969, 1973, 1985 and 1997. In the earlier open days, months were spent preparing displays and there was unlimited money. Don’t know anything about the 1960 open day(s). The 1969, 1973 and 1985 open days each lasted a week. The1997 was one day and focused on the newly built display area in the auditorium. There was a wide variety of things to show in the early days. In particular, things that you could touch, bits that moved and spectacular visual shows such as the lightning display. The feedback from the public was tremendous. In the later days of TRL there was nothing much to show except displays on computer screens which was boring.
Scienceworks, run by museum Victoria, has many interesting visual and interactive displays. The lightning room contains high voltage equipment that was kindly donated by Telstra, following the closure of the lightning lab at TRL.
1969
Open Days
The
POST OFFICE Research Report
(Describes
some of the exhibits)
Visitors
Guide
The
following information booklets
were
available at various displays. I have placed them all in this
PDF file in the order shown below
Common Channel
Signalling
Instrumental Chemical Analysis
Semiconductor
Thin Film Facility
Graphical Symbols for Logical
Diagrams
Communication by Radio to Remote Areas of
Australia
Speech Level Meter
Soft Magnetic Iron
Testing
Luminescent Tape Testing
The Adaptive Echo
Canceller
Electronic Circuit Tester
Research Laboratories
Computer Centre
Propagation Measuring Equipment Records &
Analysis
Television Ghosts
Measurement of Radio Refractive
Index of the Air
Signalling System for PCM
Transmission
Electronic Signalling Equipment
Transmission
Media
Data Transmission
Reed Relay Tester
1985
Open Days
"Dare
to Discover" (The visitors guide).
"Dare
to Discover" (The information book with technical
information about the exhibits).
The
following information leaflets were
available at various displays. I have placed them all in this
PDF file in the order shown below.
Message Handling –
Electronic Mail Service
Electronic Directory Service
ISDN
Terminals & Integrated Services Delivery
From
Teleconferencing to Computer Based Telecommunications
Human
Factors Research – Making New Services Easy to Use
Subjective
Testing of Speech Quality
Voice Activated Telephone
Systems
Acoustic Chambers
Videotex Services
Network
Design & Optimization
Performance Testing of Packet Switched
Data Networks
Protocol Verification using
“Protean”
Melba
Programmable Array Logic
Devices
How Computers Control Telephone Exchanges
Australian
Development of Digital Transmission Test Equipment
Computer
Modelling of Customer Access Networks
Interference from Decadic
Dialing
Theoretical Studies of Digital Transmission Systems
High
Capacity Single Mode Optical Fibre
Optical Fibre Elongation at
Cable Plough-In
Jointing of Optical Fibre
Digital Microwave
Radio
Point-to-Point Atmospheric Optical Communications
Single
Mode Optical Fibre Measurements
Cellular Mobile Radio
Systems
Wideband Integrated Services Experiment
Spread
Spectrum Communication
Point-to-Point Atmospheric Optical
Communications
Electromagnetic Interference from Information
Technology Equipment
Atmospheric RF Source Control Unit for an
Advanced Antenna Test Range
Experimental Satellite Earth
Stations
Research Activities in Satellite Communications
Digital
Transmission for the Local Cable Service
Communication with
Light
Steerable Microstrip Array Antennas
Telecom and
Satellite Communications Research
A Gate Array and Custom
Integrated Circuits
Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion &
Storage
Infrared Imaging Systems
Fibre Drawing
Tower
Optical Technology
Multiproject Chip
Implementation
Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
The Optical
Fibre Future
The Microchip
Redder than Red – The Near
Infrared
Lightning Location
Electrical Safety of Customer
Staff and Equipment
Temperature Calibration (NATA)
Parrot
Damage to Microwave Feeds
Analysis of Vapours from Industrial
Processes
Battery Test Facility
Effect of Chemical
Contamination on Lead Acid Batteries
Metal Service Failures &
Development Projects
Testing of Mt Wellington
Radome
Fibre-Resistant Wire & Cable
Outdoor Weathering
of Safety Helmets
IC Characterisation & Failure
Analysis
Mechanical Life Testing of DIP Switches
Keypad
Technology
Pulsed Solar Simulator
Laboratory Testing of
Solar Modules
Surface Characterisation Studies
Electrical
Overload Testing of Transistors
Stabilization of
Polyethylene
Field Testing of Solar Photovoltaic
Modules
Specific Optical Fibre Applications
Library Use of
Microforms
On Line Interactive Retrieval Systems
Microcomputers
in the Library
Calibration of Thermistor Mounts
Attenuator
Calibration
Calibration of AC Thermal Converter
Standards &
Measurements Traceability
Generation of Time & Frequency
Standards
Microelectronic Discharge Machining
Inspection of
Spaces Using Endoscopes
Machine for Impact Testing of Telephone
Cases
External Facilities for Equipment Engineering
Transducer
Monitor for Gas Pressure in Cables
Computer Terminal Response
Time Measurement
A Computerised Instrumentation Records
System
Techniques for Servicing Electronic Equipment
Thick
Film Hybrid
Microelectronics
Printed Boards
Thin Film High Speed Hybrid
Technology
Calibration of Power Level Transfer Standards
Custom
Designed Integrated Circuit
Phase
Locked Oscillator
Civil Time Code Receiver
Solid State
Speaking Clock
Tilt Alarm for Tractors
The Telecom
Australia Headquarters Library
Developments in Instrumentation
Servicing
Research Department Museum Collection
Handicapped
Person Access Dialler
1997
Open Day
Family
at Work (Visitors
Guide)
Last updated May 2017