Person
Savage, Robert (1818 - 1888)
- Born
- 24 March 1818
Cork, Ireland - Died
- 12 July 1888
South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Agricultural writer and Inventor
Summary
Robert Savage settled in the Nangeela valley, western Victoria in 1839 and helped invent a reaping machine and stone-breaking machinery. He was the agricultural writer for the "Argus" from the late 1850s and was a member of the Land Tenure Reform League.
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Robert Savage - Records, 1833 - 1914, ML MSS 1203; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- O'Neill, Sally, 'Savage, Robert (1818-1888), agricultural writer and inventor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 88-89. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/savage-robert-4539. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537552. Details
- 'Savage, Robert (1818-1888)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468906. Details
See also
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_s.html. Details
- Ingpen, Robert, Australian inventions and innovations (Rigby Publishers Limited, 1982), 80 pp. "A Mechanical Shearing Machine" pp.29, 31. Details
- McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew, Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history (Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria Press, 1994), 179 pp. p.90. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 August 2006
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