Corporate Body

Australian Oxygen Company (c. 1909 - ?)

From
c. 1909
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Manufacturing industry

Summary

The Australian Oxygen Company was established in c1909 by the Grimwades, who had acquired the license for Linde's liquefaction and fractional distillation of air process. From 1910 the company was only one of two Australian manufacturers of oxygen and liquid air.

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See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_a.html. Details
  • Savage, Paul, With enthusiasm burning: the story of welding and associated industries in Australia (Brisbane: Paul Savage, 1974), 135 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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