Person

Thompson, David (1865 - 1916)

Born
5 December 1865
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Died
4 February 1916
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Engineer and Manufacturer

Summary

David Thompson worked in the family engineering business established by his father, becoming general manager in 1910, a position he held until his death. The firm manufactured pumps, sluicing and dredging plants, steam-engines, boilers, railway equipment, and locomotives for the Victorian and Commonwealth governments.

Details

Worked in the family engineering works, assisting in the management of the business and supervising installation of the firm's machinery throughout Victoria, effectively head of the company from 1908, general manager 1910-16.

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

Resources

Rosanne Walker

EOAS ID: biogs/P002666b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002666b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260