Hunt is on for 'home' of Australian tv

The search is on to find the historic North Ipswich house that received Australia's first television signal.

Contrary to popular belief, the first television broadcast in Australia was not in 1956, when Bruce Gyngell welcomed viewers to television.

It was much earlier, when a group of enthusiastic amateurs beamed a transmission from Brisbane to a house in Ipswich, lived in by electronics lecturer Tom Biddle.

The Ipswich broadcast on April 10, 1934 featured a flickering black and white picture of American movie actress Janet Gaynor. It was transmitted 40km from the Old Windmill Observatory in Wickham Terrace, Brisbane.

So if you know exactly where Tom Biddles house was/is in Ipswich, Queensland, email nationalnews@wia.org.au

Source: Wireless Institute of Australia