Showing 178 items
matching plant parts
-
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Pun?u : Yankunytjatjara plant use : traditional methods of preparing foods, medicines, utensils and weapons from native plants, 1988
... plant parts... introduction, and extensive glossaries of botanical names, plant parts... of botanical names, plant parts, processes etc, all Yankunytjatjara ...Encyclopedia style entries for 27 plants with standard scientific description plus description, science and stories in Yankunytjatjara with translations. Includes general and linguistic introduction, and extensive glossaries of botanical names, plant parts, processes etc, all Yankunytjatjara and English (and Latin as appropriate)B&w illustrations, colour illustrations, word listsclimate, landforms, vegetation, vegetable food (mai), fruits, seeds, roots, greens, galls, fungi, nectars, sweet secretions, gums, medicinal plants (punu ngangkari), language, stories, plant use, trees, shrubs, subshrubs, grasses, vines, succulents, mistletoes, plant parts, habitat, plant processing, yankunytjatjara, central australia -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Rolls Royce Power Plants Spare Parts, Power Plant Spare Parts
... Power Plant Spare Parts... Parts Manual Power Plant Spare Parts Rolls Royce Ltd ...Rolls Royce Ltd -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Bristol Sleeve Valve Engines and Power Plant Spare Parts Price Lists
... Bristol Sleeve Valve Engines and Power Plant Spare Parts...Bristol Sleeve Valve Engines and Power Plant Spare Parts ... -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document, Thomas Bing Nurseryman, 1870s
... 1870s. This company sold seeds and plants to all parts... 1870s. This company sold seeds and plants to all parts ...These catalogues come from the firm of Thomas Lang and Company of 52 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne and Bridge Street, Ballarat. They list the seeds and plants for sale in the early 1870s. This company sold seeds and plants to all parts of Australia and to India, China, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Ceylon and Fiji. These catalogues have no known local provenance but have considerable antiquarian value and are of interest as they tell us what plants and seeds were sold in Australia in the 1870s.These are three booklets - catalogues of plants and seeds for Thomas Lang & Co, Nurserymen and Seedsmen, of Ballarat and Melbourne. The booklets are printed in black on a white background and are bound or stitched with fine string. They are a little foxed and dog-eared. Catalogue One is dated 1870 and is numbered No. 27. The cover has an ornamental border. Catalogue Two is dated October 1871 and is Number 36. Catalogue Three is Number 30 but undated and contains prices of seeds and current postal rates.thomas lang & co.,, nurserymen and seedsmen, plant and seed catalogues, 1870s, warranmbool, history -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Brown coal
This particular specimen was recovered from the Lal Lal Coal and Iron Mine in Victoria, 19km from Ballarat. Brown Coal was discovered here in 1857, just alongside the Geelong to Ballarat Railway line. This discovery of lignite (brown coal) was the first in Victoria, which would bring important benefits to the region and state, both of which had previously been reliant on coal imports. In the 1860s, iron ore was found just 5km from Lal Lal, and the area was converted into an Iron Ore Mine. The Lal Lal Iron Mining Company took over operations in 1874, who then peaked iron production in 1884. This mine continued operations until June 1884, when the blast furnace was extinguished and never recommenced. The blast furnace at Lal Lal is considered one of the most important and highly significant sites ion early industrial history in Australia, as it is the only remaining best furnace from the nineteenth century in the Southern Hemisphere. The furnace ruins are 17 metres high, and are clearly visible today on Iron Mine Road, Lal Lal, near the Bungal Dam. This specimen of Lignite (brown coal) is significant, as it was mined from the area where brown coal was first discovered in Victoria, leading to an important and controversial future of the mining and use of brown coal in this State. The Victorian Heritage Database has listed the Lal Lal Coal Mine with local significance, with their Statement of Significance stating: "The Lal Lal coal mine is historically significant as the site of the first discovery of lignite (brown coal) in Victoria, and one that promised important benefits to regional and state industries that were reliant on coal imports at the time. The significance of the stie is reduced by the poor state of preservation of the coal mining and processing fabric". This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.A hand-sized light-weight, soft and combustable sedimentary rock specimen, that is dark brown in colour. The specimen has jagged edges, as though parts of the rock have crumbled away. Brown coal, or Lignite, is formed naturally from compressed peat, and is typically found in natural basins. The stages to the formation of coal ('coalification') begin with plant material and wood, which will decay if it is not subjected to deep burial or heating, and turn into Peat. Peat, when sufficiently compressed naturally, will turn into Brown Coal (Lignite), and finally into Black Coal (sub-bituminous, bituminous and anthracite). Each successive stage has a higher energy content and lower water content. It is brownish-black in colour. Brown Coal has a high moisture content, between 50 and 75 percent, and a low carbon content. Some Brown Coals may be stratified, with layers of plant matter, which means little coalification has occurred beyond the peat natural processing stage. When Brown Coal is submerged in dilute nitric acid or boiling potassium hydroxide solution, it reacts to produce a reddish solution, of which higher-ranked coals do not. When brown coal is pulverised and burned in boilers, the steam is used to drive turbines, which generates electricity. It is the lowest rank of coal, as when burned, it creates a relatively low heat content, which in turn does not create a great output of steam. burke museum, beechworth, indigo shire, beechworth museum, geological, geological specimen, mineralogy, brown coal, brown coal specimen, lignite, lal lal, lal lal coal mine, lal lal iron mine, ballarat, blast furnace -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Mangan Hedenbergite
This specimen was recovered from Broken Hill, NSW. It was given the name Mangan Hedenbergite in 1819 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in honor of Mr. Anders Ludvig of Hedenberg who was the first to define hedenbergite as a mineral. Hedenbergite, belongs in the pyroxene group having a monoclinic crystal system. The mineral is extremely rarely found as a pure substance. Mangan Hedenbergite is a manganese bearing variety of Hedenbergite. Manganese is the world’s fourth most used mineral after iron, aluminium, and copper primarily because it has no satisfactory substitute in its major applications. Globally, the steel industry is the primary user of manganese metal, utilizing it as an alloy to enhance the strength and workability of steel and in the manufacture of tin cans. Manganese is a key component of certain widely used aluminium alloys and, in oxide form, dry cell batteries used in electric vehicles. These batteries are in high demand. Another potential use for manganese may as an additive to help coat and protect a car’s engine. Manganese is also used for non-metallurgical purposes such as plant fertilizers, animal feed, and colorants for bricks. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.A hand-sized mineral specimen in shades of silver and blackmanganese, open cut mine, manganese ore processing, bell bay, tasmania, northern territory, steel industry, zinc-carbon batteries, alkaline batteries, tin cans -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Fossiliferous Mudstone, Unknown
This specimen was found in Cape Patterson, Vic. Cape Paterson is a cape and seaside village located near the town of Wonthaggi, 132 kilometres southeast of Melbourne, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. These dark, fossiliferous Mudstones were deposited in slow-moving water associated with sedimentary basins & continental shelves. They are rich in carbon which makes them almost black. This is typical of an anoxic, reducing environment such as deep water or stagnant conditions where carbon-rich material would remain unoxidised during subsequent deposition & diagenesis. it has an imprint of a leaf in the rock itself, displaying the fossil of the plant. This specimen is unique due to the leaf impression within the stone itself. Imprint fossils are formed from an organism moving in some way, leaving behind a trace or track. These tracks are preserved when the clay/silt dries slowly and is covered by other sediment. Plants can also leave imprint fossils when they are covered by sediment. The leaf tissue degrades, leaving an imprint of where the leaf once was. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.These dark, fossiliferous Mudstones were deposited in slow moving water associated with sedimentary basins & continental shelves. They are rich in carbon which makes them almost black. This is typical of an anoxic, reducing environment such as deep water or stagnant conditions where carbon rich material would remain unoxidised during subsequent deposition & diagenesis. FOSSILIFEROUS MUDSTONE / Locality: Cape Patterson, Victoria | Descriptive catalogue / Pg 27 No 95 / "Grey Clay, / Cape Paterson with leaf impressions' / 15/4/21 C. William /mudstone, cape patterson, leaf imprint, fossilised leaf, fossiliferous mudstone -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Book - Register, Workbook: Burnley Gardens Record of Fieldwork, 1917-1918
Handwritten weekly fieldwork logbook from week ending 6 January 1917 to week ending 7 December 1918. Includes information about plants and crops, horticultural practices, drainage work undertaken. At the back, information on the dairy cows. Some parts very faded.weekly, fieldwork logbook, 1917, 1918, plants, crops, horticultural practices, drainage, dairy cows -
Albert Park-South Melbourne Rowing Club
Moore Sculling Machine
"Grace Blake’s conversations with older members of the Club have elicited the following information during July 2014: • Don Christie recalls the machine being acquired by (or donated to) SMRC in the 1960s. SMRC later donated it to APRC. • Bob Duncan remembers it being at APRC. • Max Shaw joined the club in 1946 but doesn’t recall it at all. • Peter Watson recalls collecting the rowing machine from the old APRC club house before its demolition (c. 1995). The AP-SMRC machine carries a ‘maker’s plate’ with the name Moore... Moore Crane and Engineering Company Pty Ltd was a subsidiary of Malcolm Moore Industries Ltd whose manufacturing engineering works were located on Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne from 1927. The founder established the main business in 1921 and retired in 1953.21 The business was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange in 1976. Grace Blake advises that some of the earlier SMRC members were plumbers and therefore worked in trades connected with engineering. She reports that Peter Watson recalls some of his contemporaries completing their engineering apprenticeships at Malcolm Moore Industries Ltd in the 1970s. There are still many unanswered questions concerning the history and provenance of the rowing machine at the time of writing this report, but the connection with a local engineering works is certainly fascinating. Questions to explore in the future include: Did Moore manufacture the machine, or import it (and perhaps assemble it) under licence? Was this machine a ‘one-off’ or did Moore make / distribute others within Australia? When, why and how did SMRC acquire the machine? Why did SMRC decide not to retain it, but to pass it over to APRC? And how did APRC use it?" 2014 Significance Assessment, pp38-40. "The ‘Moore’ Rowing Machine at the Albert Park – South Melbourne Rowing Club (AP- SMRC) is a rare example in Australia of the Kerns patent design from 1900. This machine may not, however, be that old in construction or use. The AP-SMRC machine is almost intact, appearing to lack only the leather straps for fastening the rower’s feet to the foot-rests. Spalding manufactured the design in the USA in the early decades of the 20th century, but the metal elements in its models are traditionally black. The bright red paint on the AP-SMRC machine suggests something different. The AP-SMRC machine carries a maker’s plate that associates it directly with a local engineering business, Malcolm Moore Industries Ltd of Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne. Club members recall the machine being at the South Melbourne Rowing Club in the 1960s, and being transferred at a later date to the Albert Park Rowing Club. The machine has not been used since the founding of the amalgamated AP-SMRC and requires careful conservation. The ‘Moore’ rowing machine is of national research significance as a rare survivor, in Australia, of the well-regarded Kerns patent design that was popularised by Spalding in the northern hemisphere. The English River and Rowing Museum website quotes a testimonial from an AG Spalding & Bros’ Mail Order Catalogue: ‘This machine was described by ‘an experienced oarsman’ ... “to be the most perfect rowing machine ever produced”. A feature was the adjustment of the resistance so “the weaker sex can use the machine”’. Its historic significance lies in its rarity (and perhaps uniqueness) as an aid to the training of rowers at two successful clubs on Albert Park Lake. Additional historic significance lies in the connection that the rowing machine represents between local rowing clubs and a major local manufacturing engineer. The ‘Moore’ rowing machine bridges the realms of innovation and application, of industry and recreation, of land-based and aquatic sports, and of two neighbouring rowing clubs on the Albert Park Lake." 2014 Significance Assessment, p43"A rowing machine that appears to be built to the Kerns patent design from 1900 but may not be that old in construction or use. The machine is heavy and includes parts made from cast iron. The cast iron components are painted in a distinctive bright red. The wooden seat moves on timber slides. Resistance is created by spring mechanisms at the ends of two frame elements that connect with two wooden ‘oars’, and by the central chain-driven system that co-ordinates with the rower’s movements. The machine carries a maker’s plate with the single word ‘Moore’ in an oval design, using white letters against a navy background, fastened to the base board and close to the foot-rests." 2014 Significance Assessment, p38Moorerowing, apsm rowing club, significance assessment, malcolm moore industries ltd, kerns, 1900, sculling machine, albert park rowing club, south melbourne rowing club, albert park lake, rowing machine, ergo -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy 650 Series Illustrated Parts Catalogue Volume 3, Chapters 52-91, AW. 650 Aircraft Manual
Topics include fuselage, nacells, wings, stabilisers, windows, air, ignition, engines, propellers, power plant, engine controls, starting, oil, exhaust, engine indicators, water injection, turbines, charts and accessory gearboxes. -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy 222 Series Illustrated Parts Catalogue Volume 3, Chapters 57-83, Argosy Series 222 Illustrated Parts Catalgoue Volume 3, Chapters 57-83
Topics include wings, propellers, power plant, engine controls, engine indicating, exhaust, starting, water injection, and accessory gear boxes. -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document - Extract from Ambassador Aircraft Parts Catalogue Power Plant, Airspeed
... Extract from Ambassador Aircraft Parts Catalogue Power... Aircraft Parts Catalogue Power Plant Document Airspeed ... -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Robert Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria : volume 2 : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania : compiled from various sources for the Government of Victoria, 2005
Historical work by the Secretary of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines. (c.1876) Volume two is devoted to Aboriginal languages, including comparisons of Victorian languages with those from New South Wales, word lists, vocabularies, and native names of trees and plants. Volume two also includes details and customs of the aborigines in Tasmania. Includes interesting observations on the works of William Thomas, Alfred W, Howitt, Philip Chaney, Albert A.C. La Souef, John Moore Davis and Rev. William Ridley.robert brough smyth, philip chauncy, william ridley, albert le souef, a. w. howitt, john moore davis, william locke, a. f. a. greeves, language comparisons, phrenology, aboriginal social life and customs, death and burial customs, weapons, tasmania, lake tyers, lake wellington, gippsland, ballarat, brabrolong, lake hindmarsh, kotoopna -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. .... Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants ...'The Bimble Box (Eucalyptus populifolia, Hook. F.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'The Black Sally (Eucalyptus stellulata, Sieb.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'The Giant Gum-Tree (Eucalyptus regnans' F v M.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'Eucalyptus viminalis. Labillardière)''F v M director.' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native ...'The Yellow Stringybark (Eucalyptus muelleriana HOWITT.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native ...'The Broad-Leaved Messmate (Eucalyptus obliqua, L'Hérit.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. .... Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants ...'White Honeysuckle (Banksia integrifolia, Linn f.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, banksia -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
Line drawings of parts of the fern 'Fougère.' (Fern.)plants, ferns -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
Line drawings of parts of wheat 'Froment.' (Wheat.)plants, wheat -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... Director.' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts.... Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants ...'Eucalyptus uncinata. Turczaninow'' F. von Mueller Director.' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. .... Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants ...'The Narrow-leaved Pittosporum Pittosporum philyraeoides.' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. .... Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants ...'Eucalyptus polyanthema. Schauer'' F v M director.' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .) Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native ...'The White or Grey Box ( Eucalyptus hemiphloia Fv M.) Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'Red Stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha F v M.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'A White Stringybark (Eucalyptus eugenioides, SIEB.' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... .)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'Broad-leaf Mallee (Eucalyptus Beriana, F v M.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Slide - Glass slide, 1891-1905
... of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. ... drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants eucalyptus ...'Bosisto's Box (Eucalyptus bosistoana, F v M.)' Photograph of pages from books. Line drawings of parts of the plant. australian native plants, eucalyptus, ferdinand von mueller