Australia On This Day

8 July - 1965 - The Supreme Ruler Of The Wireless


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REPEAT: On this day in 1965, wireless pioneer Sir Ernest Fisk died in his Sydney home. This eccentric genius left a colourful legacy, having not only introduced radio broadcasting to Australia but having also proposed we might use it to communicate with the dead.


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