All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists." />

Published Resources Details

Conference Paper

Author
Purtnell, Maureen
Title
"The Union of Science and Practical Skills": 100 Years of Documentation of Science and Technology in CSR
In
Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
Editors
Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton
Imprint
Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 101-108
Url
https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/purtell.htm
Subject
History of Australian Science - General
Format
Print
Description

And HTML

Abstract

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at ANU, which is the former Archives of Business and Labour, was recently renamed after the founder, Professor Noel Butlin. Our mainstream collections relate to Australian industrial life. These collections are for the most part the records of professional bodies, industry organisations, employer and employee organisations and Australian companies. There are some personal papers.

Today I plan to talk about one large company collection in particular, but it is possible to look at the records of other groups in industry as potential sources of information in the broad context of science and technology. These organisations may not create scientific records but they can contain information that provides a backdrop to developments in Australian industry.

For example, we hold the records of the Sydney Branch of the Institute of Metals and Materials, Australasia. This learned society and professional body works in various ways to assist in training and developing relationships between metallurgists and other scientific and technical professions. The records of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers, a similar body in its origins, are another example. They became part of the trade union, the Federation of Scientific and Technical Workers which existed until 1971.

Source
Carlson 1996

Corporate Bodies

Related Published resources

isPartOf

  • Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Sherratt, Tim; Jooste, Lisa; Clayton, Rosanne (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), 124 pp, https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/contents.htm. Details

EOAS ID: bib/HASB04493.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2025 May (Gwangal moronn - Gariwerd calendar - Autumn: late March to end of May - season of honey bees)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#gwangal-moronn
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/bib/HASB04493.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260