Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Road engineering and its development in Australia, 1788-1938 [Part 1]
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 10, no. 2, Feb 1938, pp. 41-70
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0020-3319
- Description
This paper, No. 623, which originated in the Sydney Division of The Institution will be presented before the Engineering Conference to be held in Sydney in March, 1938.
The author, Hugh Hamilton Newell CBE MIEAust, is Commissioner for Main Roads, New South Wales, and the paper was prepared with the assistance of his staff.
See map in "The Story of the Road" - J. W. Gregory, 1931
- Abstract
In this paper is traced the growth of the present system of highways in the various States of Australia from the lowly beginnings of a bush track around the shores of Sydney Cove. The various phases through which the administrations of the highways of the States have passed are briefly reviewed, as well as the development of the application of scientific principles to road location and construction made necessary by the impetus given during the past 20 years to fast moving road transport. For lack of space the purely economic and financial aspects have had to be curtailed. The present trends of highway engineering are stated, and a general forecast is briefly outlined.
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- Roth, Walter Edmund, Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1897), https://archive.org/details/cu31924029890328. Details
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- Newell, H. H., 'Road engineering and its development in Australia, 1788-1938 [Part 2]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (3) (1938), 97-106. Details