Chapter 2
I Technology Transported; 1788-1840
II Technology Established; 1840-1940
i Meat Preserving: Heat Processing Introduced
ii Horticultural Products: Heat, Sugar and Solar Drying
iii Refrigeration and the Export of Meat
iv Milling and Baking
v Dairy Products
vi Beverages
vii Sugar: Supplying an Ingredient
III The Coming Of Science
IV From Science To Technology: The Post-war Years
V Products And Processes
VI Conclusion
VII Acknowledgements
References
Index
Search
Help
Contact us
Refrigeration and the Export of Meat [51] (continued)
Climate and distance forced Australia to be innovative in refrigeration. It was an imperative lacking in North America, where the vested interests associated with the supply of natural ice and the capital tied up in railway rolling stock for the transport of live cattle combined to slow down the development of refrigerated transport and warehouse refrigeration. In Australia the problem had to be solved and the entrepreneurs had the courage to develop an idea rather than simply take over an existing technology as the canners had done. In fact, they had no choice; there was no refrigeration technology available when they began. In the event, air expansion equipment built in Britain established the Australian export trade in frozen meat. Mort and Nicolle failed because Nicolle's ammonia compression system, which was better than air expansion and soon replaced it, was about twenty years ahead of the solutions of its associated problems.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - CSIRO
 |
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering |  |
© 1988 Print Edition page 95, Online Edition 2000
Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, using the Web Academic Resource Publisher
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/093.html