Gas and Fuel Fashion,Food,Fitness. Outside of a large tent/marquee. At bottom right the back of a red carevent, social, gas & fuel fashion, food, fitness

Cardboard cylinder with green wrapper marked Veritas XXX quality Ramie Gas Mantle No 6841 British Manufacture.Veritas Incandescent Mantle Works London SW.18.lighting, gas, mantle

3 Unknown Males on stage at a Gas and Fuel event - Date and Location Unknown - Several people sitting at tables.Fujiorganization, business, gas and fuel

Used for planned burning operationsBurner wand - propane gas Adaption of a commercial garden weed burner Not used AirFlow Hot Rod MkIV forests commission victoria (fcv), planned burning, bushfire, hand tools

Plan showing compressor plan layout at Bendigo Weeroona Gasworks. Prepared by Gas and Fuel Corporation Development Department.plan, bendigo, bendigo weeroona gas works, gasworks, public utility, gas and fuel corporation

This star finder, designed for aeronautical use, was based on the Rude form as modified by Elmer Collins of the United States Hydrographic Office. It consists of a white plastic planisphere with the northern sky on one side and the southern on the other that shows all the stars in the American and the British Air Almanacs; nine clear plastic altitude-azimuth templates for use at different latitudes up to 85° north and south; an instruction card; and a leatherette container. It was published in March 1942 under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and cost $2.50.

This tuyere (word from French origin) was used by professional blacksmiths and or cattlemen before and during the Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme was being constructed. The need to use a furnace or forge in the shaping of metal rods, horse shoes and pipes is both a rural necessity and a construction, on site requirement. The "inventiveness" of cattlemen and construction workers to produce metal objects not available "off the shelf" is one of the inherent traits not only of rural self sufficiency but in the "pioneer" days of rural isolation one of survival.This tuyere is of great significance to the Kiewa Valley and its regions because it highlights one of the greatest strengths of the rural (especially isolated) life and its folk living there, and that is the great human factor of adaptability and survival techniques in sometimes harsh and demanding environmental circumstances. The inventiveness and the attitude, "she'll be right mate", demonstrates life on the land where specialised blacksmith activities can be found in non "professionals" because of the fact that "someone" has to do the job. This is one of the differences between country "rural" life and that found in cities and larger towns.This iron cone shaped tuyere has a small hole (diamenter 25mm) starting within an ever enlarging cone (amplification of the air pressure going through) delivering varying hot or extremely hot air into a furnace or hearth which intensifies the heat to allow the "shaping" of metal objects. The larger "flared" cone extension allows for the directed air to be spread and not concentrated.blacksmith tool, tue, bellows, fashioning metal, forge manufacturing process

Bushfire behaviour is influenced by many factors including temperature, relative humidity (RH), forest type, fuel quantity and fuel dryness, topography and even slope. Wind has a dominant effect on the Rate of Spread (ROS), as well as fire size, shape and direction. Temperature and relative humidity have major impacts on fuel dryness and therefore upon the availability of fuel for combustion. The amount of fine fuel available can increase rapidly from nearly zero when fuel moisture content is more than 16% after rain or a heavy morning dew, to many tonnes per hectare as fuel dries out later in the day and the moisture content drops below 9%. This explosive escalation in the amount of available fuel can happen over a few hours on hot and windy days. This device is used for determining air temperature and relative humidity. It contains two thermometers, one of which is covered with a wick saturated with ambient temperature liquid water. These two thermometers are called dry bulb and wet bulb. Once the thermometers to reach equilibrium temperatures the two thermometers are quickly read. The figures are then used to convert the dry bulb temperature TDB and the wet bulb temperature TWB into humidity information. The wet bulb temperature is approximately equal to the adiabatic saturation temperature. Relative humidity meter in wooden box two stainless steel tubes contain wet and dry thermometers A small clock drives a fan motor in the base to circulate airforests commission victoria (fcv), weather, bushfire

Photograph - black and white - large. Written on the back 'R.G.Ford's Air Compressor and Air Receiver, mounted on a heavy wooded frame. Central Deborah Collection. Copied 10.12.2001.' Written on wooden frame ' R.G.Ford's Patent No. 48'organization, business, mining equipment, mining equipment. central deborah mine. air compressor. air receiver.

Enamelled VAOC Observer badge. Single pin on back. Colours: red circle in centre overlaid with stylised eagle in gold; white surrounding ring and blue outer ring with gold lettering.Front: (Centre) stylised eagle / Observer; (Edge) Volunteer Air Observers Corps. Back: This badge is the / property of the / Department of Air / 27582 / Stokes.vaoc, observer, ww2

[a] Cohns Printed manilla envelope handwritten caption 'Powell Gas Producers, Correspondence and Contracts in respect thereof. Dated June-July 1941 August 1942. [b] Documents pertaining to above enclosed. There is a letter from Leyland Motors North Melbourne dated 15.7.1941 and order forms relating to the purchase of 3 x Powell Gas Producer plants to be fitted to three vehicles -the fitting of 'Powell truck type Producer Gas Plants for Leyland Model 'Cub KZ3bendigo, industry, cohn bros brewery

Plaque: ‘Hans W Egli/Ingenieur / Fabrikation von flechenmashinen [sic; ?] / Pat. O, Steiger / Zurich II / No 2566. Sole Agents for Australia / Peacock Bros./ Business Systems Company / 558 , 560, 562 Collins St., Melbourne / and at / Sydney, Adelaide, Perth’ Plaque: ‘Presented to . / Department of Information Science / Melbourne University / by the / Gas & Fuel Corporation of Victoria / This calculating machine was used by Engineers of the Metropolitan Gas Co and Gas & Fuel Corporation / from 1917 to 1970’

Photos .1P, .2P, and.4P were most likely taken in the 1980s and photos .3P, .5P to .7P in the c1990s at the Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo. Despite lacking annotation on exact dates, locations and personnel, they are positively identified. CPL Ian Nelson in photo .1P is operating a Wild Pug 4 point transfer device in Air Survey Squadron c1980s. Control points were transferred onto the mapping diapositives of aerial photography by drilling their locations into the photographic emulsion. SPR Viv (Hawkins) Doherty in photo .2P, SPR Jeanette Drury-Lane in photo .5P and SGT Sandy Craig are operating a Wild B8 Stereoplotter coupled to a digital workstation in Air Survey Squadron c1994. Topographic features were extracted with the B8 in 3D and feature coded with attributes, using keyboard, menu, keypad and voice inputs to the computer. The features were stored in the AUTOMAP 2 digital database for subsequent cartographic production and printing. CPL Mick Ellis in photo .3P is operating the Optronix 4040 Scanner/Film Writer in Lithographic Squadron c1990s. In scanning mode, compilation sheets were mounted on the drum and scanned. The resultant raster file was vectorized, feature coded with attributes and stored by cartographic technicians in the AUTOMAP 2 database. In film writing mode, digital cartographic files were output at very high resolution for each print colour on photosensitive film, for subsequent finalisation, platemaking and printing.This is a set of seven photographs of technicians operating map production equipment at the Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. The photographs were printed on photographic paper and are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. The photographs were scanned at 300 dpi. .1) - Photo, colour, c1980s. CPL Ian Nelson operating a Wild Pug 4 point transfer device in Air Survey Squadron. .2) - Photo, colour, c1980s. Wild B8 Aviograph stereoplotter feature extraction, SPR Viv (Hawkins) Doherty in Air Survey Squadron. .3) - Photo, colour, c1990s. CPL Mick Ellis operating the Optronics 4040 Scanner in Lithographic Squadron. .4) - Photo, colour, c1984. AUTOMAP 2 Graphic Edit Workstation, SPR Craig Kellet in Cartographic Squadron. .5) - Photo, colour, c1994. Wild B8 Aviograph stereoplotter feature extraction, SPR Jeanette Drury-Lane in Air Survey Squadron. .6) - Photo, colour, c1994. AUTOMAP 2 Graphic Edit Workstation, L to R: unidentified, SPR Rachel (Stanford) Scott, CPL Chris Wynn in Cartographic Squadron. .7) - Photo, colour, c1994. Wild B8 Aviograph stereoplotter AUTOMAP 2 Graphic Edit Workstation, L to R: unidentified (x2), SGT Sandy Craig in Air Survey Squadron..1P – no annotations .2P – annotated “Stereoplotter Workstation. The operator has the use of keyboard, menu, keypad and voice for input to the computer. Feedback is given through voice and screen messages.” .3 to .7P – no annotationsroyal australian survey corps, rasvy, army survey regiment, army svy regt, fortuna, air survey, litho, aerotrig, automap 2

Photograph of Air Raid trench in Caulfield Park during World War 2caulfield, air raid precaution, world war 1939-1945, caulfield park

Photograph of Air Raid trench in Caulfield Park during World War 2caulfield, air raid precaution, world war 1939-1945, caulfield park

Navigational aid used during WW11Instrument for altitudes & air speed corrections. Notebook with spiral binding attached inside.Scratched on inside of stainless steel surface of cover: A G Culvenor 46 Station St. Nunawading instruments, military history - airforce, aviation, mechanics

The Emerging Writer is an insider’s guide full of valuable advice from fellow travellers – a resource you can keep within arm’s length, for when you need to consult that map again to help you find your way. The book was published in 2012 and edited by Karen Pickering.A blue, yellow and black book with an image of a fanciful hot air balloon on the cover.emerging writers' festival, 2009, literary programming, the wheeler centre, the emerging writer, books, karen pickering, 2012,

Brodie style steel helmet painted black for use by Air Raid WardenHas the Letter W stencilled on the front.

A sepia studio portrait of Alwyn Till in his WW2 air force uniform.till, alwyn terence, ww2, raaf