Person
Ritchie, Samuel Sextus (1825 - 1879)
- Born
- 1825
Greenwich, Kent, England - Died
- 8 March 1879
Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Company director
Summary
Samuel Ritchie was manager of the Melbourne Meat Preserving Company 1867-1879. Canned meat production was begun in September 1868 and a few months before his death he invented canning machinery claimed to be far superior to that used in the United States.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Beever, E. A., 'Ritchie, Samuel Sextus (1825-1879), company manager' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 32-33. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060042b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537780. Details
- 'Ritchie, Samuel Sextus (1825-1879)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468510. 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_r.html. Details
- Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1980), 332 pp. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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