Journal Article

Author

Institution of Engineers Australia

Title

19th Annual General Meeting - Minutes [Melbourne, 21st March 1939]

In

Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

Imprint

vol. 11, no. 4, Apr 1939, pp. 146-147

ISBN/ISSN

0020-3319

Description

Includes a portrait of John Wilson, President 1939

Abstract

Prizes presented: Warren Memorial Prize, 1937, for papers presented during 1936 :- Awarded to Mr. D. V. Isaacs., MCE AMIEAust, or his paper entitled "The distribution of stresses in fillet welds".

Prizes presented: Edward Noyes Prize, 1934, for papers presented during 1934:- Awarded to Mr. G. O. Thomas, MCE AMIEAust, for his paper entitled "The determination of the suitability of bituminous coatings for underground pipes".

Prizes presented: Edward Noyes Prize, 1935, for papers presented during 1935:- Awarded to Mr. S. A. Prentice, BEE AMIEAust, Mr. J. R. Callow, BEE JrIEAust, Mr. W. W. Miller, BEE AMIEAust, in association, for their paper entitled "Radio interference from high tension transmission lines".

Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal. - The President then informed the meeting that the Council had, that day, decided that the 1938 award of the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal be made to Mr. H. R. Harper, M.I.E.Aust., of Melbourne Division. The Medal constitutes one of the highest honours which The Institution can grant, and its award is made in recognition of a life time of service to engineering in the Commonwealth of Australia. Mr. Harper, on rising to acknowledge the honour bestowed on him, was received with loud applause.

Related entries

Awards

• Edward Noyes Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia (1922 - )

  Edward Noyes Prize (1934 award) - presented to Mr. G. O. Thomas, MCE AMIEAust, for the paper "The determination of the suitability of bituminous coatings for underground pipes"; Edward Noyes Prize (1935 award) - presented to Mr S A Prentice, BEE AMIEAust, Mr J R Callow, BEE JrIEAust, Mr W W Miller, BEE AMIEAust, in association, for the paper "Radio interference from high tension transmission lines"

• Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1922 - )

  Peter Nicol Russell (1938 award) - to be made to Mr H R Harper, MIEAust, Melbourne Division, See p.146

• W. H. Warren Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1926 - )

  Warren Memorial Prize (1937 award) - presented to Mr D V Isaacs, MCE AMIEAust, at the AGM, March 1939

People

• Callow, Joseph Royal (1910 - 1947)

  Edward Noyes Prize (1935 award) - presented to Mr J R Callow, BEE JrIEAust, at the AGM, March 1939.

• Harper, Herbert Reah (1871 - 1956)

  Peter Nicol Russell Medal (1938 award) - to be made to Mr H R Harper, MIEAust, Melbourne Division, See p.146

• Isaacs, David Victor (1904 - 1991)

  Warren Memorial Prize (1937 award) - presented to Mr D V Isaacs, MCE AMIEAust, at the AGM, March 1939

• Miller, William Walter (1901 - 1977)

  Edward Noyes Prize (1935 award) - presented to Mr W W Miller, BEE AMIEAust, at the AGM, March 1939.

• Prentice, Sydney Arthur (1908 - 2002)

  Edward Noyes Prize (1935 award) - presented to Mr S A Prentice, BEE AMIEAust, at the AGM, March 1939