Mountain, Adrien Charles (1849 - 1935)

Summary

Adrien Charles Mountain, a specialist in street paving, was city surveyor of Sydney 1879 - 1886, and Melbourne 1886 - 1915. He investigated and successfully introduced the use of Australian hardwood timbers for wood paving in Sydney and Melbourne.

Details

Adrien Charles Mountain arrived Australia as a boy; educated Sydney Grammar School; articled to W.C. Bennett, engineer; worked in office of city engineer of Sydney 1866-74; to office of John Witton engineer in chief for railways; became city surveyor Sydney, then city surveyor Melbourne 1888. President, Victorian Institute of Engineers 1895; chairman, Municipal Engineering Examination Board.

Chronology

1864 - 1866

Education - Student, Office of Engineer-in-Charge, Roads and Bridges, New South Wales [Under W. C. Bennett MInstCE]

1866 - 1871

Career position - Under articles, Office of Engineer and surveyor, Corporation of City of Sydney [Under Edward Bell MInstCE]

1871 - c. 1874

Career position - Assistant City Engineer, Corporation of City of Sydney [Under Francis Bell MInstCE]

c. 1874 - 1879

Career position - Engineer, New South Wales Railways [Under John Whitton MInstCE. Exploring and surveying trial and permanent routes for railways]

c. 1876 -

Career position - Member of Council, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1879 - 1886

Career position - City Surveyor, City of Sydney

c. 1880 -

Career event - Member, Royal Society of New South Wales

5 May 1885

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1886 - 1915

Career position - City Surveyor, City of Melbourne

1895

Career position - President, Victorian Institute of Engineers

Related entries

Published resources

Journal Articles

• 'Civil engineer', 'International Roads Congress', Commonwealth Engineer, 1 (2) (1913), 54-55. Details
• Mountain, A. C., 'Wood paving in Australia', Commonwealth Engineer, 1 (3) (1913), 80-83. Details
• Mountain, Adrien Charles, 'President's Address 1896', Various Papers and Discussions of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. II 1892-1899 (1900). https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24246. Details
• Mountain, Adrien Charles, 'The evolution of the modern road (Paper & Discussion)', Various Papers and Discussions of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. II 1892-1899 (1900). https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24241. Details
• Mountain, Adrien Charles, 'Recent improvements in the sanitation of Melbourne', Various Papers and Discussions of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. II 1892-1899 (1900). https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24237. Details
• Mountain, Adrien Charles, 'Notes on a few engineering works of the old world and America (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. IX (1909), 64-88, 122-127. https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24414. Details

Resources

• 'Paved carriage-ways in Sydney, New South Wales. (Including appendixes)', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1888.21065. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 5921, 1885', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Mountain, A C (1849-19351231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-518122. 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, https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
• Fraser, Don, 'Chapter 3: Roads and streets' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 41-62. Details