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Journal Article
- Title
- Industrial development
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Description of Work
- One hundred years of engineering in Victoria
- Imprint
- vol. 6, no. 10, Oct 1934, pp. 407-412
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0020-3319
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- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dHaCC-dqXgBZ_dx9uJ3rtkouzrnZ6UWt/view?usp=drive_link
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J. G. Burnell, M.C., B.E., A.M.I.E.Aust. was Manager and Director, Thompsons Engineering and Pipe Co. Ltd., Castlemaine.
- Abstract
Engineering establishments in which the design, construction and development of machinery were vigorously carried on came into being in surprising numbers and size very early in the life of the colony. For this there was one major cause-the discovery of gold in 1851, and the necessity for machinery to work the many mines which were sunk in the various auriferous districts of Australia following upon the working out of the richest of the alluvial deposits.
As the colony developed, its public works required machinery and engineering materials. Works to meet such requirements were established by private enterprise, but most of the heavier plant, such as locomotives and heavy pumping and power plant, was manufactured by firms which had been established primarily td supply the demand for mining requirements.
From about the " seventies " may be traced the growth of the agricultural implement industry, which has been one of the largest and most important of Victoria for many years past. In no other industry has more inventive skill and ingenuity been displayed, and many types of new machines have been evolved to meet the requirements of both local and general agriculture.
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- East, L. R. (editor), 'One hundred years of engineering in Victoria. [Series of papers]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 353-420. Details