Hume, Walter Reginald (1873 - 1943)

Summary

Walter Hume, in conjunction with his brother in 1910, formed Humes' Patent Cement Iron Syndicate Ltd to develop Walter's revolutionary centrifugal process for the manufacture of concrete pipes which ultimately transformed the nature of pipe manufacture world wide.

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.105. Details

Book Sections

• Snooks, G. D., 'Hume, Walter Reginald (1873-1943)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), p. 402. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090398b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Encel, S.; and O'Dea, Marjory, 'Walter Reginald Hume (1974-1947): Some Notes on a Pioneer of Pipe Technology', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 1 (4) (1969), 17-26. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9690140017.htm. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17421411. Details
• 'Hume, Walter Reginald (1873-1943)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462195. 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_h.html. Details
• Blair, A. K., 'Cobb River Hydro-electric Power Scheme', in First Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage 1994: Old Ways in a New Land; Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1994), pp. 135-143., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.625936810689878. Details