Corporate Body

Bendigo School of Mines (1873 - )

From
1873
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Education, Mineralogy or Mining and School of mines
Alternative Names
  • Bendigo Institute of Technology (1967 - )
  • Bendigo School of Mines and Industries (1883 - 1958)
  • Bendigo Technical College (1958 - 1967)
Reference No
VA 3091
Legal Status
Public Record Office Victoria, Registered Agency
Location
Bendigo, Victoria

Summary

Bendigo, School of Mines was the second technical institution in Australia and one of the earliest in the British Commonwealth.

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Published resources

Books

  • Cusack, Frank, Canvas to campus: a history of the Bendigo Institution of Technology (Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1973), 146 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Lerk, James A., 'Gustavus Adolphus Hugo Thureau (1831 - 1901) and the Bendigo School of Mines', Journal of Australasian mining history, 19 (2021), 133-42. Details

Resources

See also

Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes

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