Person
Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856 - 1937)
- Born
- 1 September 1856
Delft, Holland, Netherlands - Died
- 15 March 1937
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Metallurgist and Engineer
Summary
Guillaume Delprat, after studying engineering and physics in Holland and working in Spain and England, joined BHP Ltd as assistant to the General Manager 1898. He was himself General Manager 1899-1921 and worked with A.D. Carmichael on the flotation process.
Details
Chronology
- 1921 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Archival resources
Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd
- Guillaume Daniel Delprat - Records, 1898 - 1929; Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Guillaume Daniel Delprat - Records, 1823 - 1937, MS 1630; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Books
- Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. p.50. Details
- Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. Details
Book Sections
- Osborne, Graeme, 'Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856-1937), Engineer, Metallurgist and Pioneer Industrialist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 274-276, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080295b.htm. Details
Reports
- Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: covering the period from the date of the appointment of the Executive Committee (14th April, 1916) to the 30th June 1917 (Melbourne: Commonwealth Government Printer, 1917). https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2788471586. Details
- Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: for the year ended 30th June 1918 (Melbourne: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1918), 64 pp. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2004795988. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5616036. Details
- 'Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856-1937)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462049. Details
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_d.html. Details
- Armstrong, John ed., Shaping the Hunter: a story of engineers, and the engineering contribution to the development of the present shape of the Hunter Region, its river, cities, industries and transport arteries (Newcastle, New South Wales: Institution of Engineers, Newcastle Division, 1983), 192 pp, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2021-09/Shaping-the-Hunter_0.pdf. Pages 146 - 151. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. p.165. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'A Life Well Lived - Guillaume Delprat' p.33. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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