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Book - Brown Gouge clothes brush, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia, 1788-1988 : A condensed history of Australian technological innovation and adaptation during the first two hundred years, 1988

  • Technology in Australia, 1788-1988 : a condensed history of Australian technological innovation and adaptation during the first two hundred years / compiled by Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

    Technology in Australia, 1788-1988 : a condensed history of Australian technological innovation and adaptation during the first two hundred years / compiled by Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Physical description

Melbourne : Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, c1988
xxix, 1017 p. : ill., maps, ports., plans, facsims. ; 26 cm.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

ex Library book

Summary

This book provides a history of technology in Australia from 1788 to 1988. There are twelve chapters by different authors. These chapters are: Innovation, science and the farmer (D.E. Tribe and L.J. Peel) Food technology (K.T.H. Farrer) Water and irrigation (K.D. Green) Forestry and forest products (W.H. Algar) Australian innovation in textile technology (D.S. Taylor) Engineering construction and building (J. Holland) Transport (B. Inglis) Communications and computers (J.H. Curtis and T. Pearcey) The chemical industry and Australian contributions to chemical technology (J.E. Kolm) The mineral industries (G.B. O'Malley) Energy (R.N. Morse) Manufacturing industry (P.N. Richards) Defence science and technology (J.L. Farrands and J.C. Wisdom) Index, photographs.

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