Conference Paper

Author

Lowe, Peter G.

Title

Some Professional Engineers Working in Auckland in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

In

9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings

Imprint

Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998, pp. 107-113

ISBN/ISSN

1858256843

Url

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.546243592618556

Abstract

The careers and work environment of a small group of professional engineers who worked in Auckland during the period c. 1910 to 1950 are described. Those chosen for study in this paper are engineers who have been suggested for, but have not been included in, the currently publishing Dictionary of New Zealand Biography & App 6.2. There are professional engineers included in the four Dictionary volumes so far completed, but they are a small number. The Engineering Heritage Conference as a venue is one of the few additional and regular opportunities for the inclusion of relevant further biographical studies. To date the bulk of Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference papers have dealt with Engineering Works rather than the Engineers who designed and executed these works. This paper outlines the careers of four professional engineers, two consultants, an academic and one employed in local government who was also an early environmentalist. The paper begins with some comments about nineteenth century public perceptions of professional engineers and engineering.

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• 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings edited by Martin, Ray L (Melbourne, Vic.: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), 213 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.1858256843. Details