Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- William Sandford, a Flawed Ironmaster
- In
- Fourth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1988: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1988, pp. 47-51
- ISBN/ISSN
- 085825414X
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.623626322253861
- Abstract
No individual did more than William Sandford between 1886 and 1907 to create a viable indigenous iron industry in Australia. A Devon man, with a background in horticulture and experience in finance and management of rolling mills, Sandford came to New South Wales in a context of matrimonial upheaval. He quickly developed a deep commitment to iron production at Lithgow, culminating in two separate achievements the manufacture of the first steel in Australia in 1900 and in 1906-7 the building of the first modern blast furnace in Australia to produce pig-iron from local ore. The paper examines the cost to Sandford's personality and prosperity of the struggles in Lithgow and appraises the heroic vision of a flawed ironmaster.
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