Published Resources Details
Resource
- Title
- Currency Note Research and Development Project CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers Guide to Records
- Type of Work
- Finding Aid
- Imprint
- Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004
- Url
- http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/plbn/plbn.htm
- Format
- HTML
- Description
Following the appearance of forged $10 notes in 1967 and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s concern about the imminent release of colour photocopiers, cooperative research between CSIRO and Note Issue Department (NID) of the RBA began. The Currency Note Research and Development (CNRD) Project was developed, aiming to combat forgery of bank notes. The project largely centred on the CSIRO Division of Applied Organic Chemistry, later the Division of Chemicals and Polymers. The plastic $10 note was issued to the public in 1988. This collection was curated and documented by the Australian Science Archives Project and the collection transferred to the National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office.
- Source
- Austehc
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Corporate Bodies
- Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, The University of Melbourne (1999 - 2006)
- Australian Science Archives Project, The University of Melbourne (1985 - 1999)
- CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1988 - 1997)
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- Buchanan, Roderick; McCarthy, Gavan; Manhal, Oscar, The Records of Currency Note Research and Development Project, CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers (Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1991), 103 pp. Details
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- Solomon, David; Spurling, Tom, The plastic banknote: from concept to reality (Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2014), 240 pp, https://www.publishing.csiro.au/book/6490/. Details