• 599... The impact of British scientific ethos and technology
• 600... The science/technology gap

601... The Australian Chemical Industry

• 602... Beginnings 1865-1919
• 603... Fertilisers [14]
• 606... Raw materials from gasworks and coke ovens
• 607... The beginnings of industrial chemical research - in the sugar industry
• 608... Explosives

616... Pharmaceuticals

• 618... Prosperous pioneers
• 624... War-time pharmaceutical chemistry
• 627... Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
• 630... Post-war pharmaceutical manufacture
• 632... Public sector policies

633... Chemists In Other Industries

634... The Dawn Of Modern Chemical Industry - High Pressure Synthesis

638... The Growth Of Synthetic Chemicals - Concentration, Rationalisation And International Links

• 642... Phenothiazine for Australia's sheep and cattle
• 643... Some innovative organic syntheses
• 645... Factory R&D

646... Australian Industrial Chemical Research Laboratories

• 648... Australian instrument inventions
• 650... Plant protection - overseas and in Australia
• 652... Successes in the laboratory but . . .
• 654... Drugs for sheep and cattle revisited
  Tetramisole - international success and local manufacture
• 656... 'Promicide'* 'Grenade'* to control ticks
• 657... Technical service R&D
• 658... Industry/CSIRO/university collaboration
• 659... Australian entrepreneurs in modern chemistry

661... The Plastics Industry

• 662... Plastics processing
• 663... Phenol - basis of the first plastic
• 664... Plastics - the first generation
• 666... Plastics - the second generation - from petrochemicals
• 668... Styrene monomer - the West Footscray petrochemical complex
• 670... The Botany petrochemical complex
• 675... The petrochemical complex at Altona
• 680... CSR - from sugar alcohol to petrochemical OXO alcohol

682... The Paint Industry

• 683... The pioneers
• 685... The early years - home- and trade-made paints
• 686... Industrial manufacture
• 687... Some important developments in the 1920s and 30s
• 688... Rapid growth in the 1950s and 60s
• 690... Some Australian inventions
• 692... Recent trends
• 694... Pigments manufacture
• 695... Trends in the chemical industry in the 1980s

697... Acknowledgements

• 698... Pictures

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