Person
Alt, Augustus Theodore Henry (1731 - 1815)
- Born
- 1731
United Kingdom - Died
- 9 January 1815
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Engineer and Surveyor
Summary
Augustus Alt was Australia's first engineer and surveyor. He laid out the town of Sydney.
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Kass, Terry, Sails to Satelites: the Surveyors General of NSW (1786-2007) (Bathurst, N.S.W.: New South Wales Department of Lands, 2008), 484 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Dowd, Bernard T., 'Alt, Augustus Theodore Henry (1731-1815), Soldier and Surveyor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966), pp. 11-12. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010013b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4821367. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92057519. Details
- 'Alt, Augustus Theodore (1731-1815)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467915. Details
Resource Sections
- State Records Authority of New South Wales, 'Agency AGY-1773: Surveyor General [I] 20 Jan 1788 to 29 Mar 1887', State Records Authority New South Wales, Sydney, https://records-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ORGANISATIONS1001860&vid=61SRA&search_scope=Agency&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L. 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_a.html. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 26 March 2007
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