Person
Newbigin, William Johnstone (1874 - 1927)
- Born
- 12 June 1874
Alnwick, Northumberland, England - Died
- 20 April 1927
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Mechanical engineer and Company director
Summary
William Newbigin was Chief of the engineering staff of Wm. Adams & Co. Ltd 1906-1920 and Managing Director from 1922. He was on the CSIR Executive from 1926 and played a leading role in the formation of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- William Johnstone Newbigin - Records, 1922 - 1927, MS 041; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- 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
- Corbett, Arthur, 'Newbigin, William Johnstone (1874-1927)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 6-7. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110007b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Memoirs', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1927), 483-495, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.264881614830457. pp.491-493. Details
- 'First members of institution [Diamond Jubilee feature article]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 51 (20) (1979), 69. 'Registered member number 6'. Details
- Newbigin, William Johnstone, 'Some notes on the Parsons steam turbine (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. IV (1905), 163-191. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24301. Details
- Upstill, Garrett; Spurling, Thomas H.; and Healy, Terence J., 'CSIR and Australian industry, 1926-49', Historical Records of Australian Science, 32 (1) (2021), 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR20012. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24026261. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/2664153895176602410008. Details
- 'Newbigin, William Johnstone (1874-1927)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465123. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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