A D V E N T U R E S   in   C Y B E R S O U N D

This project is dedicated to my former and now retired Supervisor, mentor and long time supporter of my vision for a new communications era, Professor John Bird.

Sincere thanks are also due to the following people...

Dr. Erica Hallebone, my supervisor, for taking on as a candidate one of those 'strange people' outside the world of Social Science and ably assisted by Robyn Blake my second supervisor.

David Atkinson, Senior Lecturer and now head of the RMIT AIM centre (following John Bird's retirement), his most able 2IC Jeremy Parker and she 'who really runs the show', AIM's 'Girl Friday' Rhonda Smithies

Jennifer Hooks, John Smithies and the team at Cinemedia for their continued support and allowing me access to the Cinemedia server cinemedia.net.

Dr. Simon Pockley, former fellow Ph.D. student at RMIT, 1995 - 97 'chief sounding board' and 'official morale booster'.

Harry Sokol, webmaster for Cinemedia, and other fellow MA and Ph.D. students at RMIT, David Cox, Andrew Garton, Adrian Bruch and Dr. Robert Rowe for their continued support during this project.

Liddy Nevile, who in a rare, brief moment when not in full flight trying to solve the problems of mankind before lunchtime, took the time to introduce me to the wonders of HTML.

Dr. Rosemary Schwarz and ABC Work Rehabilitation Coordinator Jenny Campbell for seeing me through when I was far from well during 1994/6.

David Quinlan, for access to his vast collection of early electronic, radio and cinema texts and memories and Mary Petroff for her friendship, inspiration and 'at the coalface', her help in transcribing various texts unable to be accurately interpreted by OCR software.

Alan and Kevin Acres, for information on their grandfather and great-grandfather, British cinema pioneer, Birt Acres and Dr. Malcolm and Iain Baird, for information on their father and grandfather, Scottish television pioneer, John Logie Baird.

Alex Stoney, for information on his great-grandfather, physicist, George Johnstone Stoney and Robert Della Volta, for information on his great, great, great-grandfather, Count Allesandro Volta.

Tim Hughes, for access to his vast personal collection of early telegraphy, telephony, radio and television texts and Len Kelly, Bill Carroll and James Kreuzer for having THE best virtual 'bookshops' for old and rare telegraphy, telephony, cinema and radio and television texts.

Gill Thompson and Kate Rouse of the Royal Photographic Society for access to their archives and Judy Swett and Sam Conner for assistance with securing late 19C issues of Scientific American

Billy Richardson, John Kapera, Del Tysdal, Dan Wagner, Bill Nelson, Dave 'West', Jim (Dr. James) Maxwell, Mike Vereb, Richard Dean, Jerry Finamore, Matt Dudenhoeffer, Tom Clarke, John Muxlow, Kevin Bradshaw, Jim Hilty, Loren Haroldsen, Steve Kirch, John Muxlow, Vicki Crawford, Philip Colston, Bill (Dr. William T.) Clark, III, Gerry Scheffelmaier, Helen Tarr, James (Jim) Haack, Scott Biasotti and Igor Pashutinski

and in more recent times: Steven Restelli, Larry Auman, Theodorus Natsinas, Timothy Hughes (USA), Thomas Weynants and Charl Lucassen for assistance in gaining access to early radio and television books and magazines including Science and Invention, Science and Mechanics, Popular Mechanics, Radio News, Television News, Radio, Radio Craft, Radio World  and Shortwave Radio and Television News

Larry Steckler and Christina Estrada for access to the Gernsback Publications' Archives, source of Radio News, Television News  and Shortwave Radio and Television News.

Lionel Hughes, Jack Judson, Stephen Herbert and Jack and Beverly Wilgus for information on Magic Lanterns, Camera Obscura and other early cinema and photographic apparatus.

Michael Harvey, curator of Cinematography at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (NMPFT) for help in tracing authors working on early cinema projects and Deac Rossell - author and expert on 19th century cinema history for information on Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul.

Last but by no means least, thanks are due to my family, my late father Crawford (James), (1907 - 1993), my mother Eileen, brothers Richard and Marshall, wife Roz and finally, the light of my life, my son Alistair for all their never ending patience as I study into the early hours, night after night, year after year.

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