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Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph, Staff of the Ballarat College of Advanced Education, late 1970s
The Ballarat College of Advanced Education was a predecessor institution of Federation University AustraliaA number of Ballarat College of Advanced Education staff sit behind a desk during a promotional display. Standing is John E. Brown, Technical Officer in Electrical Engineering Seated is Norm Barling, Jim Quinn, Bruce Gardner and John Van Der Schoor (Registry)ballarat college of advanced education, john e. brown, norm barling, jim quinn, bruce gardner, john van der schoor -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Maroondah Hospital Stage 1 for the Maroondah Hosptial Society and the Hospitals & Charities Commission of Victoria construction site, 1973
+Additional Keywords: Architects - R.S. Demaine, Russell, Trundle, Armstrong & Orton / Mechanical & Electrical Consultants - W.L. Bassett & Partners / Structural Consultants - John Connell & Associates / Quantity Surveyors - Beattie, Prowse & Associates / Builder - John R. & E. Seccull Pty Ltd.Written on backing sheet, "1973". -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - WARNE COLLECTION: THE NORTHERN RADIO SERVICE CALENDAR
Wall calendar for 1945. Picture of a shingle roof cottage set in a garden titled amid spring blooms. Under the picture season's greetings from The Northern Radio Service (W. L. Tresidder) radio and electrical service specialists, 333 Hargreaves Street, Bendigobusiness, retail, northern radio service -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Warships at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, Douglas Smallpage, 1920s
Late 1920's photograph taken on Princes Pier with warships probably American. Building on right was the electrical substation public toilets that later burned and was finally gutted 27 Jan 2001. The other customs shed is behind photographer Doug Smallpage. Gantries are in place.piers and wharves, doug smallpage -
Orbost & District Historical Society
curling and crimping tongs, late 19th early 20th century
Used by women and girls to wave or crimp their hair, for styling their hair, hairdressing. The irons are heated and then applied to the hair and wound to form curls. Pre-dates electrically heated curlers.One set of curling tongs made of iron/steel, rusted. The tongs are two shaped metal pieces which clamp together over a tress of hair. One set of crimping tongs. These have two wavy iron shaped metal pieces which clamp over a tress of hair to produce crimpy waves.hair-crimpers-curlers hairdressing heated-curlers -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Drawing - Architectural, Tower Hill State Game Reserve Natural History Centre, 26-Oct-62
Project: Tower Hill State Game Reserve Natural History Centre drawn by J.T.W. of Romberg & Boyd for Public Works Department. Drawing no. 12. Details and electrical layout.Working Drawing, Dyeline -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SEC Tramcar record - tram 11, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1936 to 1970
Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 11. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 11 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SEC Tramcar record - tram 12, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1936 to 1970
Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 12. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 12 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SEC Tramcar record - tram 13, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1936 to 1970
Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 13. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 13 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SEC Tramcar record - tram 14, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1936 to 1970
Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 14. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed.Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 14 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SEC Tramcar record - tram 17, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1936 to 1970
Lists the work carried out by the SEC on tram No. 17. Includes notes on the tram itself, body, brake gear, electrical, and truck. Generally, only significant work is listed. Demonstrates the SECV practice of maintaining records for the work on the tramcars in Ballarat.Foolscap ruled sheet with stamp tram car number and work category, typed or handwritten entries.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, sec, tramcar maintenance, records, tram 17 -
Federation University Historical Collection
Instrument - Scientific Instrument, Crookes Tube
This item was used at the Ballarat School of Mines Physics department until the 1970s-1980s to demonstrate that electrons have a straight line. A sealed conical glass tube, equipped with two electrical connections. One, at the narrow end, terminated inside with a sic shape electrode and faces a cross-shapped aluminium steel target near wide end. Other electrode is side branch, which also provided means of mounting on a polished wood circular stand. A Crookes Tube is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered. May also be called a Crookes–Hittorf tube or Maltese Cross Tubemaltese cross, crookes tube, physics, electron emission demonstration, cathode rays, vacuum tube, electrons, crookes–hittorf tube, maltese cross tube -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Poster - W3 class trams - tram 655, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1932
Poster of an image of a W3 class tram (see item 1306) and elevation, floor plans and cross sections of tram 655. Appeared in The Electrical Engineer and Merchandiser - 15/3/1932. Yields information about W3 class trams.Laminated poster of a drawing of W3 class trams.tramways, trams, w3 class, tram 655, drawings, mmtb -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - IDENTITY DISCS, 1970
Identity discs issued to Leigh Norman Moebus, Regt No 3796848 served Vietnam with the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) 2.7.1970 to 30.6.1971 during his National Service.One Round and One Octagonal Identity disc, brass on a silver chain.“JN.MOEBUS 3796898 CE A Pos Aust”military-equipment, uniforms - army, identity discs -
Federation University Historical Collection
Ammeter, Henry Sutton (probably), Ammeter attributed to Henry Sutton, 1883 (estimated)
W.B Withers wrote of Sutton: "In the realm of science Ballarat has become of world-wide fame through the inventions by Mr Henry Sutton, a native of the place. His skill and acquirements in electricity, telegraphy, telephony, photography and also in astronomical and microscopal studies have won for him a high position as a practical scientist, and the credit is the greater as he is a self-taught student … Mr Sutton, before he was fourteen years old, had read every book on science to be found in the library of the Ballarat Mechanics' Institute." The Ballarat School of Mines (SMB) was fortunate to have this genius appointed as the lecturer-in-charge of the new Electricity and Magnetism department from 23 April 1883. Although Henry Sutton submitted his resignation to the Council of SMB in October 1884 it was resolved that he be asked to reconsider, and Mr Sutton continued to teach at SMB until the end of 1886. He was a prominent member of the Camera Club, and many of the other SMB clubs. Sutton had an active and fertile brain, and was known for his inventions, especially his work on the telephone, telephane and carbon lamps. Sutton presented a vacuum pump, worked by water jet, for use in SMB Chemistry classes. His report of 1883 states: ‘A telephonic circuit has been laid down between the [SMB] engine-house and workshops, to be used for experimental purposes.’ Henry Sutton spent much thought on artificial flight, and made some interesting experimental studies with flying birds. The storage of electricty also attracted his attention, and, after much work and thought evolved the Sutton Secondary Battery. A paper on this battery was presented to the Royal Society, London, and was afterwards printed in the 'Transactions'. Henry Sutton is listed on the Federation University Honour Roll at https://www.federation.edu.au/curator/honour-roll/honourroll_sutton.shtmlA crude scientific instrument that measures amps, with a timber base and frame. Terminal posts and sliders contacts are positioned on top of the base, with flex attached. Henry Sutton lectured at the Ballarat School of Mines (SMB) in Electricty and Magnestism between 1883 and 1886. In 1883 Sutton reported: ‘…The class has been unfortunately situated, by having to wait for instruments of precision ordered from England, but which have not come to hand. The delay has caused us to start constructing instruments, which it is hoped will bear favourable comparison with those of older date.'ammeter, henry sutton, electrical, inventor, electricity and magnetism, sutton, scientific instruments -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Manual - SECV Wiring Regulations and Linesmans School Notes, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1950, 1960 and 1955
.1 - Provides the Victorian Regulations and requirements for electric wiring, switch boards for all buildings and installations in 1950. .2 - as above for 1960, has a detailed list of contents, tables and index at the rear. Applicable for 1960 .3 - provides the training program and procedures for the training of SECV Linesmen in the 1950's.1 - Yields information on the electrical requirements that Victorian Electricians and others parties were required to follow in electrical wiring. .2 - as above .3 - Demonstrates the procedures that SEC Linesmen were required to follow in their work..1 - Book - 10 sewn sections, orange cloth covers, 200 pages titled "SEC Wiring Regulations 1950". Cover price 3s .2 - Book - 15 sections, with end papers, 300 pages, red hard back cover "SEC Wiring Regulations 1961". Cover price 7/6 .3 - Book - 43 pages bound with metal binder into a manila card cover, titled "SEC Lineman's School Notes" - dated 9/12/1955.2 - has pencil notes on the inside of the rear cover. .3 - has the name "Bill ?" on the rear cover.secv, state electricity commission, rules, wiring, electrical, regulations, tramways -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Manual - The Melbourne Electric Supply Co. Service and Wiring Rules, Melbourne Electric Supply Co. (MESCo), 1918
The Melbourne Electric Supply Co. operated a Power Station in Richmond and provided power to the Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust and the Hawthorn Tramways Trust. They also provided power to Geelong and operated the Geelong Tramway system. MESCo Geelong and Richmond operations were taken over the SECV in 1930. The book gives the requirements for wiring of building and switchboard. Yields information on the electrical requirements that electricians were required to work to where MESCo supplied electricity. It would have been used in the development of the SEC rules. Has a strong association with one of the MESCo Electrical Inspectors.Book - The Melbourne Electric Supply Co. Service and Wiring Rules - 64 pages, centre stapled, dark fawn covers. Provides rules for the Melbourne (Richmond) and Geelong undertakings. Dated 1/4/1918. Has a number of printed updates pasted into the book along with a typed and hand witten note. Price 6d. Has an index.Some hand written notes on the various clauses. Has the stamp of "Electric Inspector" in the top right hand corner. Numerous marks of red and blue pencil to high light specific clauses.rules, wiring, electrical, regulations, mesco, geelong, tramways -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Documents relating to the conversion of the Courthouse to a Theatre
The School of Mines is a predecessor of Federation UniversityDocuments relating to the conversion of the Courthouse to a Theatre .1 Submission by Riley, Barden & Kirkhope Pty Ltd Consultants in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration Control .2 Submission by Anderson Connell Consultants . Consulting Mechanical & Electrical Engineers .3 Manilla folder of letters and documents relating to the conversion .1 Coburn & Associates Pty Ltd stamp in top Right Hand corner os front coverriley barden & kirkhope, anderson connell consultants, norris & partners pty ltd, courthouse theatre, courthouse conversion, courthouse, school of mines ballarat, coburn and associates, meldrum burrows and partners, l.h. vernon and associates, g.h. beanland, graham beanland, ewan jones, ron carr & company pty ltd. -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Photograph Transmission lines Mount Beauty, 66 KVA Transmission lines from Clover Power Station, Circa 1950
This photograph is a "snap shot" in time circa 1950s detailing the rural environmental change and the progressive effects of the Kiewa Valley Hydro Scheme on the basic rural setting of the valley (note the sparsity of rural infrastructure). This photograph shows the beginning of the accommodation and administration buildings for use by the construction workers and auxiliary administration employees of the Victorian State Electricity Commission. It also provides a view of the landscape before extensive development of Pondage and other non rural buildings.This photograph details a dramatic period in time which saw an enormous change to the exclusively rural area of the Kiewa Valley region in the mid 1900s (see sparse rural buildings/houses). This change presented both physical and mental challenges to the existing quiet rural inhabitants of the valley. The State of Victoria had to make adjustments to the changing demands imposed by population and industrial expansions. The development of cleaner energy supplies to a growing population has its downside ,which ever way the intrusion into the "natural" landscape is made. The construction of the large Pondage at the centre of the photograph is a good example.This black and white photograph of a panoramic view of the Kiewa Valley (Mount Beauty SEC construction workers village) shows the newly completed transmission line towers delivering electrical power(66KVA) from the Clover Power Station. The photo is on 200gms paper and not on special photographic paper.mount beauty 1940 to 1950s, development of sec kiewa hydro scheme, sec victoria -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: THE ELECTRICAL FACTOR IN METABOLISM VOLUME TWO, 1954
Green hard covered book, The Electrical Factor In Metabolism Volume Two - First Edition, 452 pages with coloured photographs & graphs, inscribed in front Mr Frank Stevenson with the compliments of the Auckland Research Group & signed by the Author W N Abbott 18/8/54W.N.Abbottbooks, technical, chemistry -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Ropes - Trolley", Oct. 1955
Report titled "Ropes - Trolley", dated October 1954 though has a date stamp on the first page of the report itself of 26/10/1955, prepared by the MMTB Testing Department, Report No. R7/1/43. Looks at the insulation resistance offered by trolley ropes when dry and wet, new and used ropes and the possibility of causing electric shocks. Gives a reference to a previous August 1952 test. Undertook examination of the ropes, electrical measurements and electrical measurements of the human body. Has a number of appendices and details the test results.Demonstrates a MMTB Laboratory investigation into trolley rope and electrical characteristics.Report - typed carbon copy - 18 foolscap sheets stapled within a brown card folder bound with red adhesive tape. trams, tramways, preston workshops, reports, specification, tramcars, trolley poles, equipment -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Books - SECV Annual Reports 1920-1948
28 books - SECV Annual Report covering the financial year with Appendices from March 1919 to June 1920 to year ending June 1948. Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 35 (b). The Victorian government owned the electrical company in Victoria supplying electricity for lighting of public buildings, street lighting and electrical trams. Brown coal was the main source of supply. The SECV commenced on 10th January 1921 having earlier been known as the Electricity Commissioners in 1919-1921. The SEC was privatised in the 1990s. The Kiewa Scheme was approved in 1937 but its start was delayed due to WWII. The reports include references to Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme early on. The papers are a primary source as they were presented to Parliament as true documents and hence valuable for research.Foolscap pages held togeether by 2 or 3 staples at the spine.The cardboard cover is a blue grey with printed black title. Varying number of pages from perhaps 40 to 70. The reports are 'together with Appendices'. Also SEC 1951 logo transferssecv 1951 transfers, secv reports with appendices -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Insulator - Porcelain
Insulates electrical wire which is attached in the groove towards the narrow end. It is screwed onto the cross arm of a power pole. Non conductive so that electricity doesn't short out to the ground.Used on power poles in the Kiewa Valley.Cream coloured porcelain cylindrical shaped insulator with a groove towards the narrower closed end. Inside the narrow end it is threaded for screwing.On the side of the closed end - "KP / 64"kiewa hydro electric scheme. electricity. power lines. insulator -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Painting - Painting, Ziggy on patrol
GIZYCKI, Andrzej Roman Witold, AKA GIZYCKI de GOZDAWA, Andrew Roman Witold, Service number: 37505, served in Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 7RAR, 1967Painting in Gold Metal Frame ( Oil ) streched canvas depicting Soldier in the reeds combat camoflage and rifle.Australian Army Badge Rank (SLR ) Raeme Badge & 2 YG on hat same artist of soldier in other painting of Ziggy. Same Frame.soldier, raeme, ziggy, gizycki -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Oil, Ludwig Winter painting, c.1943
Painted by former internee in Loveday camp, thought to be Ludwig Winter, and given to Mrs. Gillies. Winter, was interned from Persia, and on his release, obtained a position as Electrical Engineer at the Kyabram Cannery.Oil painting in plain cream chamfered timber frame. Man in foreground with hut, high peimeter fencing and guard tower.Niltatura, loveday internment camp, ludwig winter, illustrations, oil -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Motorman - Conductor's Daily Report as to Condition of Car", c1941
List extensive details of the use of the car, lists electrical and truck equipment and the car body to enable the reporting of faults. See item 8053 for a partly completed form for 10-10-1942. Yields information about the layout and detail of the form used by crews to report defects. Form - printed on quarto off white paper, form TYE 1-13, with 9333/41 in bottom left-hand corner and R2-5.47 in bottom right-hand corner. Eighteen copies held.tramways, tramcar components, forms, faults, motormen, conductors, tramcars, records, secv -
Friends of the Cerberus Inc
Whitehead Torpedo Manual, Victorian Naval Forces Torpedo Manual Whitehead Torpedoes 1889, 1889
The Torpedo Manual was created in 1889 presumably as part of the training program of the Victorian Naval Torpedo Corps.This item is significant partly because some of the information in the manual is not found elsewhere but also as it the only known copy of this manual. The manual is also evidence that a more professional approach to training was undertaken by the Victorian Naval Forces after the mid 1880s. Gunner/Instructor Corkle's of the Port Melboune Naval Brigade written in the manual is evidence of the manual's strong provenance.Victorian Naval Forces Manual printed in 1889 with 62 pages with a burgandy cover. Two sections:- Part 1 - Whitehead Torpedos and their component parts used in the Victorian Naval Forces. Part 2 - Electrical section describing firing circuits, cells, fuzes, dynamoes, search lights.Inside front cover - "Jno. Co[orkle] /Gunner & Instructor/oPort Melbourne Division/of/Naval Brigade/Port Melbourne/ January 1890." Inside back cover - "J Corkle GI/P.M.B. of N.B./January 1890" whitehead, torpedo, manual, torpedo corps. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - COMMONWEALTH ANTIMONY MINE - COSTERFIELD
Two paper catalogues from an auction of electrically driven mining & treatment plant, buildings, tools, stores and extensive equipment of the Commonwealth Antimony Mine at Costerfield (near Heathcote) Vic. Auction held on the 8th and 9th August, 1945. J. H. Curnow & Son were the auctioneers.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - commonwealth antimony mine - costerfield, commonwealth of australia, department of supply and shipping (minerals section), j h curnow & son, j l jamieson & co, w g wedd, mr j zoch -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Equipment - Signals Head Set
1942 Signals Head Set. Two black bakelite earpieces attached to black wire headpiece. Brown electrical cord is attached to wire and bakelite. Thick black rubber cord is attached to one earpiece. Has khaki canvas material attached to go around back of head.ZA28658 D ^ Dwwii, head set, signals head set, bakelite -
Bendigo Military Museum
Equipment - ARMY BACKPACK
Large backpack made of green canvas with webbing straps, metal buckles, waterproof liner. Back straps have additional foam added to straps and secured with black electrical tape, The backpack has several compartments with strapping to secure. A wide webbing strap at the top and bottom of pack.Front flap "GRANT'. Top Back: "MAS (*) WOODS. UNDECIPHERABLE LETTERING. MIDDLE BACK " GRANT" . FADED: CA ... (**) AREA FOR MILITARY STANDARD IDENTIFICATION STAMP.backpack, vietnam, army equipment