Coane, Henry Edward (1877 - 1923)

Summary

Henry Coane, MIEAust MVIE MAmSocCE, joined his father in the consulting engineering practice J. M. and H. E. Coane about 1900. Henry lead their work as engineers to the Pacific Phosphate Company, London and built extensive facilities at Ocean Island and Nauru. In 1908 they opened the phosphate deposits on the islands of Makatea, Paumotu Archipelago, for the Compagnie Francaise des Phosphates de l'Oceanie, later worked by the Anglo-French Phosphate Company, of Paris and London.

The firm were consulting hydraulic engineers to the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, for the Sugarloaf-Rubicon Hydro-electric Scheme, as well as consultants to many municipal councils, water supply and irrigation trusts across Victoria and New South Wales.

With his father and brother, they wrote the major book "Australasian Roads - a handbook on construction, maintenance, and administration", of which five editions were published between 1908 and 1937.

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Chronology

1892 -

Career event - Articled pupil, to his father J. M. Coane

c. 1900

Career event - Granted Certificate as Engineer of Water Supply, under Irrigation Act 1886 VIC

c. 1900

Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Engineer and Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1890 VIC

c. 1900 - 1923

Career event - Consulting engineering, J. M. and H. E. Coane [in practice with his father J. M. Coane]

c. 1904

Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC

1908

Career event - Published first edition of book "Australasian roads ..."

c. 1918

Career event - Member (MVIE), Victorian Institute of Engineers

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

c. 1920

Career event - Member (MAmSocCE), American Society of Civil Engineers

1921 - 1923

Career position - Councillor, Institution of Engineers Australia [representing Melbourne Division]

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Coane, John Montgomery; Coane, Henry Edward; Coane, John Mongomery, Jun., Australasian roads : a treatise, practical and scientific, on the location, design, construction and maintenance of roads and pavements (Melbourne: George Robertson, 1908), 334 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Southern, Roger J., 'Coane, John Montgomery (1848-1923)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 35-36. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080037b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Mr. H. E. Coane, CE, abroad', Commonwealth Engineer, 1 (1) (1913), 16. Details
• 'Memoirs', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1923), 271-276, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.632560350478384. 'Henry Edward Coane' pp.273-274. Details
• Coane, H. E., 'Types of bin doors', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 5 (1900-1909), 159-160. Details
• Coane, H. E., 'Adjustment of minor triangulation', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 5 (1900-1909), 41-52. Details
• Coane, H. E., 'Modern topography', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 5 (1900-1909), 1-16. Details
• Coane, H. E., 'Results of experiments on the flow of water through a sluice and ordinary earth channel over a small weir', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 4 (1891-1899), 57-58. Details