Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- John Harry Grainger, Engineer and Architect
- In
- Third Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference. Dunedin 2009
- Imprint
- Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2009, pp. 4-13
- Url
- https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1274/Proceedings_of_the_Third_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Dunedin_2009.pdf
- Abstract
John Grainger, the father of internationally famous composer Percy Grainger, was as talented and gifted as his famous son but, unlike Percy, he is little known today. While John Grainger had a deep love of music, his talents were expressed in the many buildings, bridges and other engineering works that he designed. Despite being subjected to recurring bouts of debilitating illness, he designed fourteen bridges, at least five water supply and irrigations schemes and a large number of buildings, many of which are on heritage registers in both Australia and New Zealand.
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- Third Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference. Engineering in the Development of a Region: History and Heritage. Dunedin 22-25 Nov 2009 (Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2009), 365 pp, https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1274/Proceedings_of_the_Third_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Dunedin_2009.pdf. Details