francis west chambers was a professional colleague of jenvey (government electrician, public works department) and conducted experiments in wireless telegraphy during 1900, both independently and in conjunction with him. at a meeting of the australian natives association on 16 may 1901, he presented a lecture on wireless telegraphy wherein he announced that he had been experimenting in the science for some time. further that he had been regularly successful in communicating between his residence mount eagle, heidelberg and the doncaster tower, a distance of 4.75 miles. it was to chambers that jenvey telegraphed news of a major development in his experimenting on 17 november 1900 and remarkably that telegraph survived and endures. museums victoria