Person
Hume, Walter Reginald (1873 - 1943)
- Born
- 29 November 1873
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 21 July 1943
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Inventor and Entrepreneur
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.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Snooks, G. D., 'Hume, Walter Reginald (1873-1943), inventor and entrepreneur' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), p. 402. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hume-walter-reginald-6764. Details
Edited Books
- Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C. ed., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. "Hume, Walter. (1873-1943)" p.105. 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. https://www.publish.csiro.au/hr/HR9690140017. 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
- Ingpen, Robert, Australian inventions and innovations (Rigby Publishers Limited, 1982), 80 pp. Details
- Ingpen, Robert, Australian inventions and innovations (Rigby Publishers Limited, 1982), 80 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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