15 - Laboratory Artifacts - CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers, Currency Note Research and Development Project Guide to Records

Series 15 - Laboratory Artifacts

Date Range

1972 - 1981

Provenance

Description

Printing plates, diagrams, machinery and equipment, chemicals, turbula drums, templates and note test materials. - Files 15/1-15/3, Items 15/OS1-15/OS15.

Series of Laboratory artifact and miscellaneous equipment files. Arranged by (approximate) chronology.

Inventory Listing

15-001	Printing Plate - Portrait Design
	Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Quantity 0.8 cm, Inventory Identifier 15-001 Series 15
15-002	Zone Plate Lens
	Creator S. D. Hamann Date range No date Quantity 0.1 cm, Inventory Identifier 15-002 Series 15
15-003	Note Printing Plate Diagrams
	Creator S. D. Hamann Date range No date Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier 15-003 Series 15
15-OS1	Turbular Drum
	25 cm by 25 cm by 32 cm Drum Creator Fishermens Bend Date range 1977 Inventory Identifier 15-OS1 Series 15
15-OS2	Turbula Drum
	25 cm by 25 cm by 32 cm Drum Creator Fishermens Bend Date range 1977 Inventory Identifier 15-OS2 Series 15
15-OS3	Oil Pump (Lamination and Hot-Stamp Process)
	Approximately 30 cm by 40 cm by 35 cm Machine Creator Fishermens Bend Date range 1970s, No date, c. mid to late-1970s Inventory Identifier 15-OS3 Series 15
15-OS4	Helical Grating Ruling Machine
	C.f. Drawing No. B-1064, Series 12/Folder 2. Approximately 10 cm by 20 cm by 30 cm Machine Creator Fishermens Bend Date range 1972 Inventory Identifier 15-OS4 Series 15
15-OS5	Rubber Weights and Weighted Banknotes (Turbula Testing)
	Small Bag Creator Fishermens Bend Date range c. 1978, No date, c. 1978 Inventory Identifier 15-OS5 Series 15
15-OS6	Rubber Weights, Washers and Hulfix 5/8 Interscrews
	8 cm by 15 cm Glass Jar Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS6 Series 15
15-OS7	Banknote Mock-Up Printing Plates - $7 Print
	Three 12 cm by 17 cm Plates Creator Fishermens Bend Date range 1970s, No date, c. early 1970s Inventory Identifier 15-OS7 Series 15
15-OS8	CNRD (Synthetic) Soil, Note Testing Mixture - 12/11/81
	14 cm by 26 cm Glass Jar Creator Fishermens Bend Date range 1981 Inventory Identifier 15-OS8 Series 15
15-OS9	Fairmont HD-75 (High Density Strand 75) Diazo
	15 cm by 30 cm Plastic Container Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS9 Series 15
15-OS10	Surface Energy Test Solutions (dyne/cm)
	Nine Vials in 8 cm by 10 cm by 7 cm Box Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS10 Series 15
15-OS11	Manual Plotter (Banknote Layout)
	2 cm by 6 cm by 5 cm Machine Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS11 Series 15
15-OS12	Banknote (Stencil) Template
	7.5 cm by 15 cm by 2 cm Template Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS12 Series 15
15-OS13	Carboxylated Acrylic Solution, 1801/148
	7 cm by 8 cm Tin Drum Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS13 Series 15
15-OS14	Melamine Formaldehyde Solution, 798-0716
	7 cm by 8 cm Tin Drum Creator Fishermens Bend Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS14 Series 15
15-OS15	Photochromic Compound
	1.5 cm by 3.5 cm Vial Creator S. D. Hamann Date range No date Inventory Identifier 15-OS15 Series 15

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, June 2004
With support from CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Roderick Buchanan, Gavan McCarthy and Oscar Manhal
HTML edition Ailie Smith
Updated 8 November 2007
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/plbn/15.htm

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