MOTAT oral history interview with William Irwin

Object detail

Accession number

16-0540

Maker

William Irwin
Megan Hutching

Description

Oral history interview with William Irwin focusing on his work conserving MOTAT’s Meccano differential analyser. Contains information about his engineering career in South Africa, interest in Meccano, the history of the differential analyser and its use in the context of early computing, and the conservation process.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Synthetic/Plastic
Processed Material/Synthetic/Plastic

Physical description

1 sound disc (ca. 182 minutes) : digital

Credit line

William Irwin et al. 08 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015. MOTAT oral history interview with William Irwin, 16-0540. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Disk, Optical Videodisc, Digital Tools & Equipment for Communication Data Processing T&E Data Processing Media

Production place

Auckland New Zealand

Subject: all levels

<C> Interviews <C> Irwin, William Anecdotes Meccano Differential Analyser No. 2 <C> Anecdotes Meccano (Toy) Anecdotes Museum of Transport and Technology Anecdotes Computers <C> Anecdotes Whale, Harry (b. 1921) Anecdotes Telecommunication Sound recording and reproducing

Collection type

Audio Visual Walsh Memorial Library

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