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PROFESSOR W. L. BRAGG MESSAGES TO AUSTRALIA r LONDON, Sept. 23 How Professor L. Bragg assisted his father and grandfather to-send the first wireless messages in Australia 35 years ago was recalled by him at a luncheon at the Manchester Radio Exhibition. "My grandfather, Sir Charles Todd," said Professor Bragg, "was the first Postmaster-General of South Australia. He was an old man when the first news of Marconi's achievements reached Australia. Nevertheless, he and my father erected two stations two miles apart. 1 was just old enough to help in sending and receiving tho first messages." ( Both Sir William Bragg and his son. Professor W. L. Bragg, have been awarded the Nobel prize for physics. Sir William was a professor at Adelaide Universitv from 18S6 until 1908.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 13
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