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m - map
t - table
N.S.W. - New South Wales
N.T. - Northern Territory
Qld - Queensland
S.A. - South Australia
S.W.P.A. - South West Pacific Area
Tas. - Tasmania
Vic. - Victoria
W.A. - Western Australia
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S. H. Smith (U.K.) 694
S. Haunstrup and Co. Pty Ltd 416
S. W. Hart and Co. Ltd (Solahart) 779, 780, 782
S.A.A. Timber Engineering Standard 236
S.A.A. Timber Framing Standard 236
Safe Seal pail 871i
Safety Digest 510
sailing ships, in the grain trade 513
Sale, R. M. 482
salicylates 620 - 622, 622 - 624
salinity reduction 160 - 164, 188 - 192
Salt Water Creek, Melbourne 313
salted meat, imported to Botany Bay 70 - 72, 74 - 75, exported to Britain 74 - 75
Salvarsan 616
Sanderson, J. G. 586i, 592 - 593
Sandford, W. 320, 849 - 851
sandstones, Sydney 312
Sanforizing Services of Australia 280
Santa Gertrudis cattle 48 - 49
Sara Lee 623
satellite tracking stations 922
satellites Cocos Islands 578i, earth stations 578, 578i, in telecommunications 556 - 558, 568, 572 - 573, 574, 574 - 575, 576 - 577, 578 - 580
Savio, S. p. A. 298
sawmills and sawmilling 205, 206, 209 - 210, 222 - 223, 225 - 229, 226i, future developments 260 - 261
Schaetzel, Stanley S. 496 - 513
scheelite xiv
Schlafhorst, A. G. 298
Schletterius (wasp) 221
School of Dairy Technology, Werribee 101
science and technology, respective roles xix
Science Museum of Victoria 590
Scientific Design (S.D.) 663, 672
scientific laboratories, earliest 610 - 611
Scott Paper Co., U.S.A. 252
Scovill Manufacturing Company, U.S. 302
scrapie 46
Sea Dart 934
Search Light Control radar (SLC) 914
Sears, U.S.A. 304
Second World War, stimulus to food technology 70 - 72, 110 - 111, Australia major source of food for SWPA in 118 - 119
sedimentation basins 174
Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution in Australia. Report 191
series multiple magneto exchanges (telephone) 531 - 532, 533i
SESA packet switching system 571
settlements, early European in Australia 149 - 151, in rural areas 164 - 167
settlers, their water sense 148 - 150
sewerage systems, in the major cities 184, 363 - 365, activated sludge treatment 184, 365i, 365, broad acre land treatment 184 - 185, collection systems 185 - 188, in early Sydney 314 - 315, lagoon treatment 184 - 185, package plants 184 - 185, 365i, 365, Pasveer intermittent oxidation ditch 184 - 185, standards 186 - 188, 365
sewerage technology 362 - 367, hydrogen sulphide problem 362, reticulation 365 - 369, sewer tunnels 365 - 367, 366d, sewerage boring machine 365, 365i
Shalite expanded shale lightweight-aggregate concrete 326 - 327
Shay Gap/Sunrise Hill area 718
sheep industry, early period 7 - 9, computerised management systems 65 - 66, controlled breeding 54 - 57, disease 17, fecundity rates 54 - 55, fencing of properties 17, in 1970 52 - 53, in 1984 52 - 53, research for 55 - 56, 56 - 57, sheep and wool production 52 - 57, sheep numbers in 1890 17 - 18, worm killing drug for 641 - 643
sheep population 264
sheep-wheat rotation system, introduced 56 - 57, efficiency 59 - 61
Shell Co. of Australia 430, 662, 666, 689, 773
Shew, D. I. 117, 126, 127
shipbuilding industry 516 - 518, 518 - 521, 828 - 829, catamaran mine hunter 519 - 521, 520i, ferries 519 - 521, high speed vessel using aircraft lift techniques 519 - 521
shipping freight costs 518
shipping lines, named A. J. Carmichael's Golden Fleece Clippers 442, James Baines Black Ball Line 441, Loch Line of Clipper Packets 442, P. & 0. Company 442, The Dale Line 442, The Mersey Line 442, The Orient Line 442, The Thames Line 442
shipping, modern 513 - 523, adoption of industrial gas turbines 516 - 517, bulk cargo carriers 514 - 517, 518, coastal trading 514 - 517, innovative small craft 518 - 519i, 519 - 521, 520i, marine salvage 519 - 521, roll-on roll-off vessels 514 - 515, shipbuilding industry 516 - 518, 518, simultaneous discharge and loading capacity 519 - 521, technological changes affecting industry 513, 517 - 521
shipping, technological changes affecting 513, 517 - 521
ships, named 2001 518, Accolade 518 - 519, Alltrans 518 - 519, Amanda Miller 517 - 518, Arab Steed Berean 441, Ballarat 516 - 517, Bass Trader 514i, Bogong 517 - 518, Champion of the Seas 440, Chevron Oregon 516 - 517, China 440, Corinth 441, Darwin Trader 515, Donald Mckay 440, Duchess of Northumberland 440, Earl Grey 440, Endeavour (Sydney) 436, Gemini 439, H.M.A.S. Rushcutter 520i, HMAS Perth 521, Idomeneus 91 - 92, Iron Duke 515, Iron Monarch 515 - 517, 515i, James Baines 440, James Watt 437, Jane Eyre (paddle steamer) 158 - 160, King George 436, Kodam 521, Lady Augusta 438, Lady Jocelyn 442, Lightning 440, Loongana 441, Lufra 441, Marco Polo 441, Mary Anne 438, 439, Morayshire 440, Princess of Tasmania 514i, Rapid 519 - 521, RMS Niagara 521, Rose Hill Packet 435 - 436, 516 - 517, Rose 437, 516 - 517, Santhia 521, Seaway Prince 516 - 517, Shamrock 437, 516 - 517, Sophia Jane 437, Speedwell 436, Spirit of Victoria 519 - 521, Stolkraft 518 - 519i, 519 - 521, Strathleven 89 - 90, 513, Tamar 437, The Australia 437, 441, The Ceres 437, The Cutty Sark 441, The Experiment 436, The Grappler 439, The Great Britain 442, The Harriet McGregor 441, The Hawkesbury (ship) 436, The Helen 441, The Lump 435, The Maitland 437, The Robert Miller 517 - 518, Thermopylae 441, Thistle 437, 516 - 517, Tricolor 515, Troubridge 514 - 515, 515, USS Houston 521, Warrego 516 - 517, William the Fourth 437, Zincmaster 519 - 521, M.V. Kooringa 515i
Shirley's Fertilisers, Pinkenba 604
Shoalhaven Scheme, pumped storage 800
Shriver, A. K. 84
Si-Ro-Mark 286
SI-RO-SET process 288 - 290, 289d
Siemens (Australia) Ltd 563, 581
Siemens-Martin furnace 849 - 850
Simon, Henry 94
Simpson, - 619
Singapore Air Force 503
Singapore, industrial precast concrete housing 338
single mode optical fibre (SMOF) 570 - 571
Sir Roy Grounds & Associates 387
Sirex Wasp (Sirex noctilio) 221
Sirospun spinning process 295 - 297i, 300 - 301
Sirotherm process 176 - 178, 658i, 658 - 659
Skylark 934
Slide Raft 507
Smith Reichhold Colours Pty Ltd 694
Smith, Ross 505, 507 - 506
Smithsonian Institute, Washington 749
Smorgan Consolidated Industries Ltd (S.C.I.) 252, 253, 254, 255, 255
Sneider Trophy Team, British 506
Snowy Mountains Council 423, 814
Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (S.M.E.C.) 423
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act (1949) 197, 422
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme 182, 369, 370, 373, 421i
Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Authority (S.M.H.A.) 423, 591, 592, 592, 806, 814
Snowy Mountains Scheme 814 - 815, for Canberra 813 - 814, power for Sydney 805 - 806, 813 - 814, pumped storage 800 - 802
Snowy River, Vic. 422
soap 602
Sobrero, Ascanio 608
Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria (S.C.I.V) 114, 645
Society of Diecasting Engineers 880
Society of Public Analysts 112
Socrates 786
Sohio ammoxidation process 651 - 652, 652d
Solar Edwards 779
Solar Energy Research Institute of Western Australia 779
solar polythene tent fish driers 130 - 132
solar power 334 - 336, 464, 751 - 753, 752t, 755 - 757, 776 - 791, building heating and cooling 785 - 787, collectors 778, 780, 781t, 781 - 782, cooling 789, in remote areas of W.A. 402, 402 - 404, industrial applications 783 - 785, 784i, International Solar Energy Society 790, on Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway 379, photo voltaics 778 - 779, 786 - 788, 787i, 787i, research and development 778 - 779, salt industry 404 - 406, state of the art 780 - 782, swimming pool heating 784 - 786, 785i, water heating industry 780, 781 - 784, 782i, wind power 787, 787 - 789
Solar Star Salt Works 618
Somerville, J. M. 586
sonar 951
Sopwith team 506
sound attenuators (power station stacks) 398 - 400, 398i
South Australia, competition to open the River Murray as a waterway 438 - 439
South Australia. Engineering and Water Supply Department 181
South Australia. Woods and Forests Dept 210, 212, 227, 251
South Australian Rubber Mills 884
South Australian School of Mines and Industries 743
South Australian Timber Corporation 244
South East Queensland Electricity Board 805
South-Eastern Purification Plant (S.E.P.P.), Melbourne 185
Southern Cloud (aeroplane) 505
Southern Cross (aeroplane) 505, 510
Southern Cross Corporation Ltd 780, 788i, 788
Spartan 683
Special Broadcasting Service (S.B.S.) 575
Spencer Chemical Company 612
Spencer Kellog 683
spinning, major advance in 277 - 278i, bottleneck in yarn production 290, Repco/CSIRO self twist spinner 289i, 290i, Sirospun spinning process 295 - 297
spun concrete pipes 173
squatters 9
Stanco (Australia) Pty Ltd 625
Standard Oil, New Jersey 675
Standard Telephones and Cables (S.T.C.) 540, 543, 544, 545, 545i, 550, 558 - 559, 563, 563, 569, 569 - 570, 571, 576 - 577, 589, 914, 932
standard transposition schemes 549
Standard Vacuum Oil Company (Stanvac) 675, 675, 676
Standards Association of Australia 781, 892
Standards Association of Australia. Timber Sectional Committee 234
Stapledon, Sir George 58
State Departments of Agriculture 21 - 25, 25 - 26, 38 - 40, 121
State Electricity Commission of Victoria (S.E.C.) 395, 423, 807 - 808, 824
State Electricity Commission of Western Australia 811
State Energy Authority of South Australia 779
State Energy Commission of W.A. 402, 402 - 403, 430, 788, 811
State Herbage Plant Liaison Committees 47
State Lands Departments, responsibility for forests 206
'steam curing' process 845 - 846
steam engines 827 - 828, Colony's first steam engine 828 - 829, first steam train 827 - 828, fitted to locally built timber vessels 828 - 829, on gold fields 832 - 833
steamship companies, named Orient Steam Navigation Company 499, Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company 438, The Australian Steam Navigation Company 516 - 517, The Grafton Steam Navigation Company 438, The Hunter River Steam Navigation Company 437, 516 - 517, The Illawarra Steam Navigation Company 438, The Kiama SteamCompany 438, The North Coast Company 438, see also shipping lines 617 - 618
steel making 723 - 724, BOS process (Newcastle, Port Kembla) 723 - 724, bullet-proof steel 723 - 724, 860 - 861, developments at Port Kembla 723 - 724, 864 - 866, drums and pails 870 - 873, Hoskins Iron and Steel Works 840, hot coil box 865 - 866, open hearth 723 - 724, pipes and tubes 854, rails 866 - 868, sheet and coil products 863 - 867, sheet rolling 852 - 854, special steels 867 - 868, steel for automotive industry 867 - 869, wire products 851 - 853, 869 - 870
steel pipes, concrete lined 844 - 845
steel structures, notable 321
Stephenson and Turner Architects 794
Stephenson, George 827
Stewarts and Lloyds (Aust.) Pty Ltd 854
stocking rate, overriding importance of 58
Strain Range Pair Counter 941
Strassman, Fritz 791
stream gauging, records 150 - 152
stripper-harvester xii
Strowger, A. B. 537
Sub Committee on Non-Atomic Research and Development (N.A.M.R.A.D.) 936
sub-sea completions 417 - 419, 418d
Submarine Cable Ltd (S.C.L.) 558 - 559
submarine coaxial cables 535 - 536, 576 - 577
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) 556 - 557, 562 - 563, 574 - 575
subterranean clover, use of 56 - 57
Sugar Experimental Stations Act 1900 51 - 52
sugar industry 51 - 53, 107 - 111, advances in 70 - 72, 114 - 115, cane and beet growing 108 - 109, chemical book-keeping 109 - 110, chemical process control 607 - 608, chopped cane harvesting 796 - 797, handling and export 407 - 408, industrial process heat 821 - 825, milling 75 - 76, 143 - 144, refining 109 - 110, use of bagasse 242, 795 - 798, 821 - 822, work of the S.R.I. 119 - 120
Sugar Research Institute, Mackay 119, 119 - 120, 797, 822
sugar-cane tramways 475
sugar-cane, improving strains of 607 - 608
sulfanilamide 619 - 620, 624 - 625
sulphide nickel deposits xiv
sulphuric acid 602, 603 - 604, 610
sulphurous acid 602
Sumitomo 570
Sunshine Harvester Works 16, 834
superheterodyne equipment 540 - 541
superphosphate 42 - 43, 56 - 57, 602, 604 - 605, 605 - 606, 640
Supradyne 488
Sutherland, Dr Keith L. 633, 744
Sutton process of water pipe manufacture 369
Swallow, J. C. 665
Swematex 303
Sydney bus system 494, 495, container terminal 341 - 342, early layout of 313 - 314, early telephone system 529i, 532t, 537 - 539, 538d, early tracks in 314 - 315, electric train system 468 - 470, 469 - 471, 471 - 472, George St. 346, introduction of gas lighting 815 - 817, road building in region 346 - 348, telephone system in the mid 1900s 546 - 547, tram network 467
Sydney Cove Campbell's Wharf 339, early water supply 149 - 150, 150 - 151, 313 - 314, government shipyard 435 - 436
Sydney Foundry and Engineering Works 830
Sydney Harbour Bridge 888
Sydney Meat Preserving Company 82, 83
Sydney Morning Herald 246 - 247
Sydney-Newcastle-Maitland Cable 541t
Synthetic Coal Oil Products 635
synthetic fibres 266, 284 - 285, 288 - 289, 289 - 290, 299 - 300, 304 - 308
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