Tooth, Robert (1821 - 1893)

Summary

Robert Tooth began the merchant and brewing firm of R. and E. Tooth in 1843, when he leased his uncle's brewery. He also had a number of other business interests in both Australia and England, including a partnership at Yengarie near Maryborough, Queensland, where from 1865 they experimented with meat preserving and in 1870 won a prize at the Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney.

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Book Sections

• Walsh, G. P., 'Tooth, Robert (1821-1893), Edwin (1822-1858) and Frederick (1827-1893), merchants, pastoralists and brewers' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 285-286. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060305b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Tooth, Robert, 'Improvements in the mode of, and apparatus for, manufacturing sugar (Patent, 4 May, 1874)', Specifications of Letters of Registration of Patents for Inventions - South Australia, 2 (196) (1868-74), 4. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7350430. Details
• 'Tooth, Robert (1821-1893)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465634. 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