Person
Kernot, Wilfred Noyce (1868 - 1945)
- Born
- 18 July 1868
Geelong, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 17 May 1945
Caulfield, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Engineer
Summary
Wilfred Kernot was lecturer from 1891 and later head of the Department of Engineering at the Working Men's College, Melbourne. In 1911 he joined the Department of Engineering, University of Melbourne and was Associate Professor and later Professor from 1923-1936.
Details
Chronology
- 1891 - 1898
- Career position - Lecturer in Applied Mechanics, Working Men's College, Melbourne
- 1894
- Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne
- 1898 - 1911
- Career position - Head, Engineering Department, Working Men's College, Melbourne
- 1905
- Career event - Member, Victorian Institute of Electrical Engineers
- 1911 - 1923
- Career position - Engineering School, University of Melbourne
- 1917
- Career event - President, Electrical Association of Australia (Victorian Section)
- 1917
- Career event - Vice-President, Electrical Association of Australia
- 1918
- Education - Master of Mechanical Engineering (MMechEng), University of Melbourne
- 1919 - 1920
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 29 Apr 1919
- Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1920 -
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1923 - 1932
- Career position - Associate Professor, Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1932 - 1936
- Career position - Professor, Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1945
- Life event - Buried, Boroondara Cemetery, Victoria
Related entries
Sibling
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- John Monash - Records, 1876 - 1934, MS 1884; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Wilfred Noyce Kernot - Records, 1890 - 1945; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Murray-Smith, S., 'Kernot, William Charles (1845-1909), engineer and educationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 20-22, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050025b.htm. Details
- Murray-Smith, S., 'Kernot, Wilfred Noyce (1868-1945), engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 573-574. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090573b.htm. Details
Conference Papers
- Ferguson, Jim, 'The Kernot engineers', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2003).. Details
Journal Articles
- East, L. R. (editor), 'One hundred years of engineering in Victoria.', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 353-420. 'Engineering Education in Victoria' pp.356-358. Details
- Kernot, Wilfred N., 'Electro-Technical Education', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian Section, 1915-1916 (1917), 12-26. Details
- Kernot, Wilfred N., 'Presidential address', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian Section, 1916-17 (1918), 1-19. Details
- Kernot, Wilfred N., 'Some Engineering Aspects of the Melbourne Tornado of 2nd February, 1918', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian Section, 1917-1918 (1920), 122-137. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539132. Details
- 'Correspondence. The influence of electric welding in the design and fabrication of plant and structures.', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1926.14171. Details
- 'Obituary. Professor Wilfrid Noyce Kernot, 1868-1945.', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/ijoti.1945.13932. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 15922, 1918', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'Kernot, Wilfred Noyce (1868-1945)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466474. Details
- 'Kernot, Wilfrid Noyce (1868 - 1945), Engineer', RMIT University History, RMIT University Archives, 2022, https://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/university-archives/finding-aids/ohrm/web/biogs/E000097b.htm. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Kernot, Wilfred Noyce', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001080p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 16 July 2019
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