Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Engineers in Australia 1788 - 1890: a preliminary analysis
- In
- Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: General Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 6, no. 1, 1982, pp. 53-60
- Abstract
An analysis of the biographical evidence of 215 engineers and of people associated with engineering, as recorded in the volumes of the Australian Dictionary of Biography for the years 1788 - 1890, shows a considerable increase in the numbers and professional competence of such persons in the second half of the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates an over whelming dominance of British - born engineers throughout the period, and represents to a remarkable degree a successful colonial transplant by a European country of its population, its institutions and its problems.