A. W. Dobbie was often called South Australia's Edison because of his wide-ranging curiosity of all things scientific and the number of inventions that he created. He was an active contributor to the emerging egalitarian society of early South Australia through his many involvements in business, community and religious organisations, scientific experimentation, astronomy, photography, botany and philanthropy etc. He was also a writer of some note with his descriptive and accurate diary entries of his various overseas trips worthy of selection by scholars as being culturally important and considered as part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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