1925 - (20 March) Inventor David Ronald de Mey Warren is born at Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia.
1934 – David’s father, Hubert Warren, dies in a Bass Strait air crash. This may have influenced him to invent the black box.
1937 – (World event) German airship Hindenburg destroyed in flames when landing in US
1939 – (World event) Germany invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany—beginning of World War II.US declares neutrality.
1944 – Becomes teacher of mathematics and chemistry, Geelong Grammar School, Victoria.
1945 - (World event) Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Germany surrenders; end of war in Europe. The US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese sign surrender: World War II officially ends. United Nations established.
1947 – Becomes lecturer in chemistry, University of Sydney.
1948 – Becomes Scientific Officer, Woomera Rocket Range and Imperial College, London.
1952–83 – Becomes Principal Research Scientist, Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne, (now part of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation). While there, he came up with the idea for the cockpit voice recorder while investigating a crash of the world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953, after seeing a miniature voice recorder at a trade show.
1956 – At the Defence Science and Technology Organisations Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne, he had turned his concept into the first working prototype of a device that would record cockpit conversations and instrument readings in a crash proofed container, painted, as ‘black boxes’ always have been ever since, a bright shade of orange.
1967 – Australia becomes first country to make Black Boxes mandatory on all jets.
1981–82 – Scientific Adviser to the Victorian State Parliament.
1999 – Awarded the Australian Institute of Energy Medal
2000 - Awarded the Hartnett Medal of the Royal Society of the Arts
2001 – Awarded the Centenary Medal
2001 – Awarded the Lawrence Hargrave Award of the Royal Aeronautical Society
2010 – (19 July ) David Warren dies
1934 – David’s father, Hubert Warren, dies in a Bass Strait air crash. This may have influenced him to invent the black box.
1937 – (World event) German airship Hindenburg destroyed in flames when landing in US
1939 – (World event) Germany invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany—beginning of World War II.US declares neutrality.
1944 – Becomes teacher of mathematics and chemistry, Geelong Grammar School, Victoria.
1945 - (World event) Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Germany surrenders; end of war in Europe. The US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese sign surrender: World War II officially ends. United Nations established.
1947 – Becomes lecturer in chemistry, University of Sydney.
1948 – Becomes Scientific Officer, Woomera Rocket Range and Imperial College, London.
1952–83 – Becomes Principal Research Scientist, Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne, (now part of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation). While there, he came up with the idea for the cockpit voice recorder while investigating a crash of the world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953, after seeing a miniature voice recorder at a trade show.
1956 – At the Defence Science and Technology Organisations Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne, he had turned his concept into the first working prototype of a device that would record cockpit conversations and instrument readings in a crash proofed container, painted, as ‘black boxes’ always have been ever since, a bright shade of orange.
1967 – Australia becomes first country to make Black Boxes mandatory on all jets.
1981–82 – Scientific Adviser to the Victorian State Parliament.
1999 – Awarded the Australian Institute of Energy Medal
2000 - Awarded the Hartnett Medal of the Royal Society of the Arts
2001 – Awarded the Centenary Medal
2001 – Awarded the Lawrence Hargrave Award of the Royal Aeronautical Society
2010 – (19 July ) David Warren dies