Person
Brearley, Joseph Henry Draper (1873 - 1941)
- Born
- 20 June 1873
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 14 October 1941
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Electrical engineer
Summary
Joseph Brearley BSc BE MIEE AssocMInstCE MIEAust, was Chief engineer, Director, then Managing Director of Noyes Bros (Melb) Pty Ltd. between 1905 and 1933. He was Assistant Electrical Engineer, New South Wales Railways and Tramways between 1896 and 1903 and supervised all the works related to converting the Sydney tramway system to electric traction.
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Chronology
- 1891
- Career event - Foundation Member, Electrical Association of New South Wales
- 1893 - 1894
- Career position - Lecturer, Science and Mathematics, St.Paul's College, Sydney University
- 1894
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1895
- Career position - Draftsman, working for James Ormiston Callender, Sydney [Electric lighting, Charters Towers, Queensland]
- 1895
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Sydney
- 1895 - 1903
- Career position - Assistant Electrical Engineer, New South Railways and Tramways [Supervising all works associated with the electrification of the Sydney Tramways]
- 5 Nov 1895
- Career event - Student Member (StudInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1896
- Career event - Associate (AssocIEE), Institution of Electrical Engineers, London
- 1897 - 1903
- Military service - Lieutenant, NSW Engineers
- 1901
- Career event - Member (MIEE), Institution of Electrical Engineers, London
- 1903
- Award - Honorary Member, Electrical Association of New South Wales
- 1903 - 1905
- Career position - Chief assistant engineer, Noyes Bros, Sydney and Dunedin [Supervising the Dunedin Electric Tramway system]
- 12 Jan 1904
- Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1905 - 1922
- Career position - Chief engineer, Noyes Bros, Melbourne
- 1907 - 1909
- Career position - Consulting engineer, Prahran and Malvern, Melbourne
- 1910 - 1922
- Career position - Director, Noyes Bros. (Melb.) Pty. Ltd.
- 1912 - 1913
- Career position - President, Victorian Institute of Electrical Engineers
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1920
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1922 - 1933
- Career position - Managing Director, Noyes Bros. (Melb.) Pty. Ltd.
- 1924 - 1925
- Career position - Committee member, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1933
- Life event - Retired
- 1941
- Life event - Buried, Brighton Cemetery, Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
Journal Articles
- Brearley, Joseph Henry Draper, 'The electric tramways of Sydney, New South Wales', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 5 (1900), 21-36, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/1992. Details
- Brearley, Joseph Henry Draper, 'Notes on electric traction (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. XIV (1914), 35-55, 58-65, 80-96. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24562. Details
- Threlfall, Richard and Brearley, Joseph Henry Drapier, 'Researches on the electric properties of pure substances. No.1. The electrical properties of pure sulphur', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 187 (1896), 57-150. Details
- Threlfall, Richard; Brearley, Joseph Henry Drapier and Allen, J.B., 'Researches on the electrical properties of pure substances. No 1. The electrical properties of pure sulphur', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 56 (1894), 32-40. Details
Resources
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 11036, 1904', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 'Application: 312, 1893', Electrical Engineer Membership Forms, 1871-1901, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/9058/. Details
- 'Brearley, Joseph Henry Draper (18730120-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476693. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Brearley, Joseph Henry Draper', 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/P001608p.htm. Details
See also
- Who's who in Australia 1929 (Sydney, NSW: International Press Service Association, 1929). Details
McCarthy, G.J.; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 March 2023
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