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History Group Assignment

Advertisements for post-war technologies Group – Tim Kerr(Mrs Treanor), Owen Forbes, Stuart Johnston, Kai Zen (All Bowen/Yassa), Dietrich Yu (Mrs Schoonderwoerd). History Group Assignment. Entertainment -Advertisement for Colour TV. Ad for Colour TV – Student Designed .

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History Group Assignment

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  1. Advertisements for post-war technologies Group – Tim Kerr(Mrs Treanor), Owen Forbes, Stuart Johnston, Kai Zen (All Bowen/Yassa), Dietrich Yu (Mrs Schoonderwoerd) History Group Assignment

  2. Entertainment -Advertisement for Colour TV

  3. Ad for Colour TV – Student Designed Tired of watching television in the same old boring black and white? Well now you don’t have to, with the new colour television from AWA televisions! Enjoy all your favourite programs in full colour! Buy this brand new 34 cm colour television for only 499 dollars!!!

  4. Impact on Australian Life – Entertainment: Colour TVs • The colour television has profoundly changed the way that Australians enjoy entertainment, providing a greater variety of entertainment options, and evolutions in the field of colour televisions during the post-war period have enabled more Australians to enjoy the experience of a colour television. While the original televisions could cost between 10 and 15 weeks of a worker’s wages, and were typically big and bulky, they have become cheaper and more easily transportable. • Colour televisions have allowed Australian’s to become more immersed in the programs on television, especially bringing news and current affairs into a more easily understood medium. These televisions were extremely useful at providing thought provoking images, such as during the Vietnam war, and the colour television has greatly magnified the power of the television media to assert itself into everyday life, taking advantage of the colour to make the media program more appealing to audiences.

  5. Housing: Home Solar Panels

  6. Ad For Solar Panels – Student Designed

  7. Impact on Australian Life – Housing: Solar Panels • The advent of solar energy has allowed individual homes to reduce their power consumption. • Solar panels for the purpose of electrical generation or more commonly water heating have been popularisedparticularly because of government incentives. • As a result, many homes in Australia now employ the use of solar panels, in an effort to reduce power costs. • This has allowed individuals to both save money on energy bills and also helps reduce the carbon footprint. • Heated water is an application in most Australian’s day to day lives. It is used for dishwashing, laundry, personal hygiene, food processing, etc.

  8. Transport Advertisement – Boeing Airplanes

  9. Ad for transport – Student Designed The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector (ATPD) helps hundreds of thousands of visually and/or aurally impaired persons, and normal pedestrians, to safely cross the street all over Australia, the USA and Singapore daily. Many people do not realise the great impact it has, as an Australian invention, on the lives of so many people, and their safe pedestrian transport.

  10. Impact on Australian Life – Transport: The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector • The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector, known to most of us as just the ‘button at the pedestrian crossing’, is an Australian invention that has received less than its deserved credit and attention, as it has and continues to be an extremely important development in the history of transport, and has had significant effects on transport in post-war Australia. A joint initiative of Louis A. Challis and Associates Pty Ltd, and the RTA, the ATPD was invented between 1980 and 1985, and production since 1985 has been handled by 3 manufacturers. The ATPD every day makes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Australia and other nations/states where the product had been exported to – the USA and Singapore – so much safer when they use pedestrian transport infrastructure. Because crossing busy roads is such a frequent occurrence in these countries, this invention has had extremely wide usage and exposure, with the probable majority of Australians having used the ATPD at some point. The ATPD is so effective because of its clever design. It improved on previous designs with its extreme sturdiness, and ease of use by tactile and aural means. The button on the ATPD is designed to withstand millions of presses. The raised arrow lets visually impaired pedestrians know the direction of the crossing, and the vibrating square in the middle of it assists visually and aurally impaired people by sending a strong tactile signal to someone touching the ATPD. Not only this, but a widely known and clear sound signal resonates from the device, coupled with the universally recognised‘Green Man’ and ‘Red Man’ solid and flashing signals for Go, Don’t Start and Stop, combine to make a very effective and safe device. The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector is a device that many Australians and people from other countries do not give much thought to, but in reality it is an extremely valuable and important Australian innovation that is very important in the history of post-war transport technology, and keeps countless pedestrians safe every day around the world.

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