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'''Noel Desmond Gray''' (26 December 1920 – November 1999) was an [[Australian]] technician, co-founder and initial financier of the medical electronics company [[Telectronics Pty Ltd]].<ref name="gray">{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Christopher & Gray, Noel|title=The Early Years of Telectronics |year=1993 |publisher= (self-published)| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OAZZAQAACAAJ&dq |isbn=0-646-15134-7 }}</ref> |
'''Noel Desmond Gray''' (26 December 1920 – November 1999) was an [[Australian]] technician, co-founder and initial financier of the medical electronics company [[Telectronics Pty Ltd]].<ref name="gray">{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Christopher & Gray, Noel|title=The Early Years of Telectronics |year=1993 |publisher= (self-published)| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OAZZAQAACAAJ&dq |isbn=0-646-15134-7 }}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
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Gray was born to Hilda Alice Gray and Joseph Albert Gray on [[Boxing Day]] 1920 in [[Crookwell, New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. He was the great grandson of George H. Hedger who may have been the inspiration for the [[Banjo Patterson]] poem "[[The Man from Snowy River (poem)|The Man from Snowy River]]".<ref>{{cite news| work=Monaro Mercury| date=3 August 1912| title=Death of George H. Hedger}}</ref> Gray grew up for a time on his grandfather's farm "Middle View" named for its view of the [[Snowy River]] near [[Dalgety, New South Wales|Dalgety]]. |
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He attended Sydney Technical School and after passing the [[Intermediate Certificate]] he was employed as a wirer for radio manufacturers [[Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited|AWA Australia]] and then Kreisler Australasia.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} |
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==World War II== |
==World War II== |
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Noel Desmond Gray (26 December 1920 – November 1999) was an Australian technician, co-founder and initial financier of the medical electronics company Telectronics Pty Ltd.[1]
World War II
Gray enlisted in the army in August 1942.[2] During World War II he was trained at the Army School of Radio Physics, whereupon he became a radar technician and Senior Radar Artificer. He also attended No. 6 OCTU (Officer Cadet Training Unit) but was denied a commission after failing an associated engineering course.
Gray returned to LHQ where he was placed in charge of the Drawing Office and maintenance section. He helped to install the radar defenses on Rottnest Island for Western Australia and was the Senior Radar Artificer at Exmouth Gulf.[3] He worked on the first US-designed RADAR unit in Australia, which was subsequently used to direct bombers during the Battle of the Coral Sea.[1]
Gray was discharged from the army on 10 May 1946 with the rank of Staff Sergeant posted to 2 SPECIAL RADAR DET RAA.[2]
Telectronics
Telectronics Pty Limited was incorporated in Sydney, Australia, in 1963[1][4] formed medical student and senior design engineer Noel Gray. Technician Geoffrey Wickham was given one share and initially designed industrial electronics. Gray introduced the pacemaker and medical electronics concepts with the experimental P3 pacemaker used in experiments in 1963.[5][6][7] The corporate name was derived from "Television and Electronic Services", operated by Noel Gray as a sole trader from 1959-1964.[1]
The company made significant contributions to pacemaker technology including the first definition of the relationship between surface area of the heart electrodes & pacing pulse characteristics, the first use of integrated circuits and the first hermetic titanium encapsulation.[1][4]
Nucleus Holdings Pty Limited, a company incorporated in 1967, became a 50% shareholder of Telectronics in January 1968. In 1975 Nucleus Holdings Pty Limited transferred it's shares in Telectronics to Nucleus Corporation Pty Limited and reduced the holding by sale of shares to a French multinational leaving a 33.33% holding by Nucleus Corporation Pty Ltd which became the publicly listed company Nucleus Limited 1980.[8] In turn Nucleus Limited was acquired by Pacific Dunlop in 1988. Legal action over the sale of faulty "J Lead" electrodes, inherited by Telectronics in acquisition of pacemaker manufacturer Cordis corporation of Miama led to the company having to settle extensive worldwide compensation claims. This led to the sale of Telectronics assets to, eventually, St Jude Medical of Minneapolis and Pacific Dunlop restructuring itself into Ansell.[citation needed]
Death
Noel Desmond Gray died in November 1999. He was survived by his wife Beth, daughter Robyn, and son Christopher. References not included for perpetuation of lies; 'Sydney makes the heart pace' David Haselhurst, The Bulletin June 26 1976, 'Treatment of complete heart block using an implantable transvenous pacemaker of Australian manufacture: technique and results' The Medical journal of Australia August 10 1968, 260 263, Cartmill, Clark,Nicks and Burnstein.
References
- ^ a b c d e Gray, Christopher & Gray, Noel (1993). The Early Years of Telectronics. (self-published). ISBN 0-646-15134-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Cite error: The named reference "gray" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ a b "Listing for Noel Desmond Gray". World War II nominal roll. Australian Government - Department of Veterans' Affairs. Retrieved 1 May 2008.
- ^ Dunn, Peter. Peter Dunn's Australia at War.
- ^ a b "Telectronics and The History Of Pacemaking In Australia", Wickham G G, Jeffcoat KW, 1987 manuscript held by http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au. University Of Melbourne .(www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au.)
- ^ David Haselhurst The Buletin June 26 1976
- ^ Foot, Robert (14 April 2006). "Rare breed of native industrialist: Paul Murray Trainor, AO Industrialist 1927-2006". Obituaries. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2006.
- ^ "Display panels tracing the history of 'Telectronics' cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, 1990". Objects from the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. Powerhouse Museum. Retrieved 4 December 2006.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Corporate Affairs records of Nucleus Holdings Pty Nucleus Corporation Pty Limited
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