Stone, Edward Giles (1874 - 1947)

Summary

Edward Giles Stone MIEAust MInstCE, was an early, innovative pioneer in reinforced concrete design and construction in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, and was a partner in the firm Stone and Siddely, of Sydney. Through his significant use of the Considère system and in wrapping of the reinforcement with heavy helical ligatures; his use of pre-cast tilt slabs, panels, pipes and other pre-cast elements build under his own patented pneumatic systems; and the construction of large concrete silos. However, the spectacular large spans and daring designs of the Dennys Lascelles Austin wool store at Geelong, the Barwon Sewer Aqueduct over the Barwon River, Geelong, and the Launceston Railway Workshops, are his most significant works. He also pioneered reinforced concrete pontoons and ships, and constructed for the Sydney Harbour Trust, what is believed to have been the largest floating pontoons in the world at the time.

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Chronology

1886 - 1892

Education - Sydney High School, New South Wales

1892

Education - Passed Public Service Examination, New South Wales

1892

Education - Matriculated, University of Sydney

1892 - 1894

Career position - Cadetship, Public Works Department, New South Wales, under Percy Allan MInstCE

1894 - 1896

Career position - Engineering Draftsman, Public Works Department, New South Wales, under R. R. P. Hickson ISO MInstCE

1896 - 1899

Career position - Engineering Draftsman, Bridges Branch, Public Works Department, New South Wales, under R. R. P. Hickson ISO MInstCE

1899 - 1902

Career position - Engineering Draftsman, Water and Sewerage Branch, Public Works Department, New South Wales, under Joseph Davis MInstCE

1902 - 1909

Career position - Chief Draftsman, Sydney Harbour Trust, New South Wales, under Henry Deane Walsh MInstCE

1909 - 1917

Career position - Private practice as specialist in Reinforced Concrete works

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

6 Feb 1923

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

Published resources

Books

• Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. p.182. Details

Conference Papers

• Gibson, John; Dawson, Tony, 'Edward Giles Stone - a legacy in reinforced concrete', in 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference: Conserving Our Heritage - Make a Difference! (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2011), pp. 105-118., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.895663590368641. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5343112. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 16904, 1923', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details

See also

• Beauchamp. David, 'The Barwon Ovoid Sewer Aqueduct - Finest Reinforced Concrete Construction to Historic Ruin', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2017)., https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/Event/barwon-ovoid-sewer-aqueduct-finest-reinforced-concrete-construction-historic-ruin. Details
• Fraser, D. J., 'Early Reinforced Concrete in New South Wales (1895-1915)', Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, GE9 (2) (1985), 82-91. Details
• Lewis, M., 'Monier and Anti-Monier: Early Reinforced Concrete in Australia', in Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage ‘The Value of Engineering Heritage': Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1985), pp. 85-90.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.724803355720226. Details
• Lewis, Miles ed., Two hundred years of concrete in Australia (North Sydney: Concrete Institute of Australia, 1988), 137 pp. 'Stone, Edward Giles', pp.1, 17-22, 25, 30-32, 45, 75-82, 116. Details