Published Resources Details

Conference Paper

Author
Ford, R. J.
Title
Nineteenth Century Engineering for the Ballarat Water Supply
In
First Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage 1994: Old Ways in a New Land; Preprints of Papers
Imprint
Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1994, pp. 145-149
ISBN/ISSN
0858256223
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.625955443661136
Abstract

During the 1870's large volumes of water were required by gold mining companies in Ballarat for mineral processing. To meet this demand a major augmentation project was proposed. Flow control devices, reservoir outlet equipment and high pressure valves were designed and manufactured locally.

See also

Related Published resources

isPartOf

EOAS ID: bib/ASBS06180.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 August (Larneuk - Gariwerd calendar - pre-spring - season of nesting birds)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/gariwerd/larneuk.shtml
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/bib/ASBS06180.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260