Thomas, Alfred John Hingston (1907 - 1954)

Summary

Alfred Thomas wrote Tasmanian Woods for the Tasmanian Forestry Department in 1933. By 1937 he was working for CSIR Division of Forest Products, where in 1939 he and Ian Langlands (qv) wrote Handbook of Structural Timber Design that became a standard reference work and ran to several editions.

Details

Chronology

1927

Education - Diploma in Forestry, Forestry School, Canberra

1928 - 1932

Career position - Forester, Tasmanian Forestry Department

1932 - 1942

Career position - Assistant, Section of Utilisation, Division of Forest Products, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

1933

Publication - Book: Tasmanian Woods

1942 - c. 1945

Career position - Second World War. Commonwealth Controller of Timber

c. 1945 - 1953

Career position - Forester, C. H. Tutton Pty Ltd

1953 - 1954

Career position - Researcher, Division of Forest Products, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Published resources

Books

• Langlands, Ian; Thomas, A. J., Handbook of structural timber design (3rd Ed.) (Melbourne: CSIR, Division of Forest Products, 1948), 299 pp. Details
• Thomas, A. J., Tasmanian woods (Hobart: Government Printer, 1933), 22 pp, http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/135503. Details
• Thomas, A. J.; Langlands, Ian, Building-frames : timbers and sizes (1st Ed.) (Melbourne, Vic.: CSIR, Division of Forest Products, 1941), 76 pp. Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Death of Wartime Timber Expert', The Mercury (1954), 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27211083. Details

Resources

• 'Thomas, A J', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-636434. 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_t.html. Details