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i - illustration
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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A. Abrahams and Sons Pty Ltd 870 - 871
A. E. Bishop Holdings Pty Ltd 883
A. Goninan & Co. 852, 853, 855i
A. J. Carmichael 442
A.A.O. (Australian Associated Oilfields) 774
A.C.I. 243, 618 - 619, 645 - 646
A.C.T. Electricity Authority 813
A.W.R.W. (Australian Wire Rope Works Pty Ltd) 869 - 870
Abbott Australasia Pty Ltd 628
Abel, Sir Frederick 611
aborigines 312, communication methods 527 - 528i, destruction of settlers' stock 9, use of resources 2 - 4, use of timber 203
acclimatisation societies 11 - 12
Acco Transport, Adelaide 518 - 519
accounting machines 584 - 586, 588 - 589
Acme Machinery Company 888
Adelaide diesel electric suburban railcars 470 - 471, export of salt 407 - 408, gas lighting 815 - 817, layout 314, telephone system 538 - 539
Adelaide Chemical Works, Torrensville 603, 604
Adelaide Electricity Supply Company 810
Adolph Basser Computing Laboratory 589
Advanced Engineering Laboratory 942, 946
Advisory Council of Science and Industry 115, 904
Aerial League of Australia 902
Aerial League of N.S.W. 497
Aero Engine Services Limited, N. Z. 503
aeronautical research 926 - 927, 941, 943
Aeronautical Research Laboratories 919, 921, 926 - 927, 928 - 930, 932 - 934, 941, 943, 956 - 957
Afghans 446
Agfa 638
Agricultural Bureau of S.A. 23
agricultural colleges local 21 - 23, overseas 21
agricultural development continuing 64 - 68, early 12 - 13, importation of wheat threshers 13 - 15
agricultural education 26 - 27, future requirements 64 - 65
agricultural engineering industry, local 13 - 17
agricultural graduates, employment of 25 - 27
agricultural improvement 4, factors militating against 11 - 12
agricultural lasers, introduction of 160 - 161
agricultural machinery 1850s to 1870s 13 - 16, early manufacturing of 833 - 834, 834 - 835, for wheat farmers 61i, interaction of American and Australian manufacturers 15 - 16
agricultural markets effect of gold rush on 9 - 11, local 5 - 8
agricultural practices early beginnings in Australia 5 - 7, 9 - 11, in England 4, in late 1860s and 70s 12 - 13
agricultural problems, approaches to 21 - 23, 23, 27 - 28
agricultural production 1980s slump 64 - 65, early 749, early problems 11 - 12, post 1960s 64
agricultural research British moves to encourage 30 - 32, characteristics of Australian 34 - 36, creation of CSIRO 30 - 31, demands for 21, examples of 34 - 61, funding of 26 - 27, 29 - 30, 30 - 32, 32 - 36, future requirements of 64 - 66, 66 - 68, growth 26 - 27, 27 - 30, international aspects 59 - 64, principal aims 38 - 39, returns from 30 - 33
agricultural science 24 - 28, Australian graduates recruited to international organisations 61 - 62, demand for graduates 26 - 27, development within universities 25 - 26, recognition as a profession 25 - 26
agricultural societies, first 9
Agricultural Society of New South Wales 21
agriculture Australian farm income 64, derivative 2 - 4
agronomists 58
Aiken, Howard 588
air drop water containers 957 - 958
air force equipment 948
air raid warning system 543 - 544
air safety standards 510 - 512
air services 505 - 509, Ansett 507 - 508, Guinea Airways 508, QANTAS 507, Royal Flying Doctor Service 496, 499, 502, 507, 509i, T.A.A. 507 - 508
air transport 505 - 507, air services 505 - 509, Australia-South America 505 - 507, Australia-West Africa 505 - 507, crossing the Pacific 505, first official mail flights 505 - 507, first round the world 507 - 508, world circumnavigation 505
airborne electro-magnetic survey in land assessment 37 - 38
Aircraft Construction Branch 907
aircraft engines, named Gypsy Moth 485, Harkness Hornet 498, Hartnett (Gregoire designed) 486, Napier-Delta 515, Pratt and Whitney R-2800 500, Pratt and Whitney Wasp 500, Rolls Royce Griffon 500, Taurus 501, Wasp 500, 501, Wizard 498
aircraft landing systems 927
aircraft manufacturing industry 906 - 907, 907, 908
Aircraft Production Commission, Beaufort Division 929
aircraft structural fatigue 503, 929 - 930, 941, 956 - 957
aircraft, named Convair 240 390 - 391, 507, Airbus 508, Australian Aircraft Consortium A-10 (Basic Trainer) 504i, AVRO 504 K training plane 498, AVRO 707A (bomber) 927, Avro Avian 505, AVRO Lancaster (heavy bomber) 502, Beechcraft 509i, Boeing 707 391, 507 - 508, Boeing 747 391, Bristol Beaufighter aircraft 485, 912, Bristol Beaufort aircraft 485, Bristol Beaufort bomber 501, 907, 912, Broadsmith BI six seat biplane 498, CAC Avon-Sabre 501, CAC CA 12 Boomerang, (fighter aircraft) 500, 912i, 929, CAC CA 15 (fighter) 500i, CAC CA-4 (bomber) 907, 912, CAC Ceres (crop duster) 501i, CAC Wackett (trainer aircraft) 500, 906, CAC Winjeel trainer 501i, CAC Wirraway 500, 501, 906i, 912, CAC Woomera (reconnaisance bomber) 500, Caravelle 508 - 509, Catalina flying boat 507 - 508, Codock (6 passenger twin-engined airliner) 498, Constellation 507 - 508, de Havilland Comet (jet airliner) 927, de Havilland DH 50 508 - 509, de Havilland Dragon (twin-engined communications aircraft) 499, de Havilland Drover (commercial feeder liner) 499i, de Havilland gliders 499, de Havilland Mosquito (fighter bomber) 499, 912, de Havilland Moth (biplane) 499, de Havilland Tiger Moth (aircraft) 499, de Havilland Vampire (jet fighters) 499, Douglas DC6 391, Duigan biplane 497i, F 111-C 930, 941, F 16 943, F 86 Sabre 501, 926 - 927, Fokker Tri-Motor 505, Fokker Universal 507 - 508, GAF Nomad 502i, GAF Nomad Searchmaster 502i, 947i, 948, Gannett (6/7 seater airliner) 498, Genair (aircraft) 498, Jindivik (pilotless target aircraft) 502, 918i, 926 - 927, 934, Jones Wonga (aeroplane) 498, 498, Lincoln (heavy bomber) 502, Lockheed Altair 505, Lockheed Electra 391, Martin 202 929, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 941, 943, Millicer Air Cruiser 503, Millicer designed CT4 Airtrainer 503, 948, Mirage III-0 927, 941, NA-33 (later known as Wirraway) 500, Percival Gull 505, Pika 933 - 776, Pilatus PC09 504, Short 'Empire' Flying Boats 507 - 508, Stinson (airliner) 929, Transavia Airtrak PL-12 (agricultural/utility aircraft) 503, Transavia PL-12 M300 (military aircraft) 503, Transavia PL-12-550T (turbo-prop) 503, Transavia PL-12U (utility aircraft) 503, Transavia Skyfarmer T-300 503, Transavia Skyfarmer T-300A 503, Vickers Vimy 505, Vickers Viscount 391, 507 - 508, Victa Airtourer (2 seater club aircraft) 503, 948, Wackett Warbler 498, Wackett Warrigal I (training aircraft) 498, Wackett Warrigal II (single seater fighter) 498, Wackett Widgeon I (flying boat) 498, Wackett Widgeon II (flying boat) 498
Airedale Weaving Mills, Melbourne 280
airport design and construction 390 - 393
airport runways 390 - 392, pavement configuration and design 390i, 392i, seal coats 392, test rolling of 392i
airports 390 - 395, control towers 392, lighting 392, passenger terminals 392, runways 390 - 392
Akre, Robert W. 612
Aktavite 622
Albany Felt, Gosford, N.S.W. 299
Albright and Wilson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Yarraville 604, 641, 645, 691
Alcan Australia Ltd 727, 728, 873, 874
Alcoa of Australia Ltd xiv, 728, 728, 807, 874
Allen, M. W. 586i, 591 - 592i, 595
Alt, Capt. Theodore Henry 313, 315
Altona Petrochemical Company Ltd 675 - 677
Altona Petrochemical Complex 674 - 679
aluminium 725 - 729, 807 - 808
aluminium technology 872 - 874
Alusuisse 728
Amalagamated Wireless Australia (A.W.A.) 510, 536, 540, 543, 544, 545, 553, 553, 565, 570 - 571, 932, 955
Amalgamated Society of Engineers 534
Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavay's) Ltd 246 - 247
American Chemical (AmChem) 650, 684
American Clipper 439 - 440, 440 - 441
American Rolling Mill Company (ARMCO) 860
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT. & T) 540 - 541, 541 - 542, 544, 567
ammonia 605 - 606, 607 - 608, 624 - 625, 625 - 626, 634, 636
Ammonia Company of Australia 606
ammonium nitrate 602, 612 - 615, 634, 636, ANFO 612 - 613, on site plant 613i, 634, open-cut blasting 613i
ammonium nitrate based fertilisers 634, 636
ammonium nitrate water gels 612 - 614
ammonium phosphate 604 - 605, 607 - 608
Anderson and Barr of Jersey City, U.S.A. 351
Annett and Darling Ltd, N.Z. 294
Ansett Freight Express Ltd 490
Ansett Transport Industries Ltd 508
Ansett, R. M. 494, 507 - 508
anthelmintic drugs 654
Anthrax vaccination 616
anti-submarine weapons 898 - 900
antibiotics 619 - 620, 630 - 632
ANZCAN 577
ANZUS 899
Apollo Company Works, Footscray 602
Apollo Stearine Candle Cpy 602
apples, first refrigerated shipment 92 - 93
aquifers, recharge of 161 - 164
Aragao, Dr H. de Beaurepaire 45
architects, role during settlement 313
Argyle Mine, Kimberley, W.A. 740i
Arkwright, Richard 265, 268, 269, water frame spinning machine 269d
Armaments Chemicals Committee 611
Armed Forces Food Science Establishment (A.F.F.S.E.), Scottsdale 120, 949
Army Design Establishment 945 - 946
Army Tropical Trials Establishment 940
artesian bores 17, 151 - 152, 168i
AS Mark 892
asbestos 701
Associated Glass Manufacturers 662
Associated Pulp and Paper Mills (A.P.P.M.) 214, 215
Association for Applied Solar Energy 790
Association for Science in Asia (A.S.C.A.) 130
Association of Consulting Engineers Australia (A.C.E.A.) 408, 409, 412, 413
Atlas computer 425
atomic absorption spectroscope 648
AUSSAT 526, 573, 578i, 579 - 580
AUSSAT Pty Ltd 568, 575, 578 - 579
Austek Microsystems Pty Ltd 891
Austral Bronze Co. Pty Ltd 873, 878
Austral Silk and Cotton Mills, Abbotsford, Vic. 280
Austral-Pacific Fertilisers Ltd, Gibson Island, Brisbane 604 - 605, 634
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy xv, xvi, 700, 702, 746
Australia climates 2, distance from by shipping routes 2, European settlement of 312, farming systems 59 - 62, flying times to other parts of the world 2, flying times within 2, livestock 2 - 4, major food exporter 70, original vegetation 2 - 4, population 1851-61 338 - 339, road system 495, size 2
Australia Post: set up 567 - 568
Australia. Main Roads Development Act 482 - 483
Australia. Army. Directorate of Armoured Fighting Vehicles 913
Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics (B.M.R.) 744
Australia. Bureau of Transport Economics 475
Australia. Department of Air 499
Australia. Department of Aircraft Production 883, Beaufort Division 501 - 502
Australia. Department of Aviation (D. of A.) 390, 393
Australia. Department of Civil Aviation (D.C.A.) 390, 392, 393, 510, 929
Australia. Department of Communications 526
Australia. Department of Defence 541, 580, 594, 933, 935, 937 - 939, 945 - 946
Australia. Department of Defence Scientific Laboratory, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne 611
Australia. Department of Defence. Medical Equipment Control Committee (M.E.C.C.) 619, 624, 626
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs 63
Australia. Department of Health, Ultrasonics Institute 889
Australia. Department of Housing and Construction (D.H.C.) 389, 391 - 392, 392, 393
Australia. Department of Munitions 907 - 908
Australia. Department of Supply aeronautics 926 - 927, ammunition research 926, bomb aerodynamics 930, high-temperature alloys 928 - 929, Ikara 921 - 922, lasers 928, machining 925, navigation 928, research and development 925 - 932, structural fatigue and aircraft safety 929 - 930, underwater research 931, xerography 925 - 926, 956
Australia. Department of Works and Housing (D.W.H.) 389, 391, 392, 393
Australia. Division of National Mapping 928
Australia. Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction 284
Australia. National Acoustics Laboratory (N.A.L.) 392 - 393
Australia. Post Master General's Department. Research Laboratories, defence projects 543, 12 channel radio telephone system 537, established 536 - 537, land line relay 540, open wire carrier systems 537, production of telegraph carrier equipment 544 - 545, radar development 914, Radio Research Board 540 - 541, research reports 537 - 538, separation into Australia Post and Telecom 567 - 568, standards 537, submarine coaxial cable 537, the Cirrus computer 592 - 593, V F telegraph systems 544 - 545, vacuum tube repeators 540 - 541
Australian Academy of Science 746
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 746
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences Symposium 1981 658
Australian Agricultural Company 829
Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company (A.A.E.C.) 498
Australian Aircraft Consortium 504
Australian Aluminium Company 873
Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 746
Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Vic. 46
Australian Antarctic Territory 387 - 388
Australian Association of Scientific Workers. Drug Committee 624
Australian Atomic Energy Commission 709, 713, 755, 792, 794 - 795
Australian Automobile Association 479
Australian Ball Bearing Company 483
Australian Broadband Communications Network 563t
Australian Broadband Network 575m
Australian Broadcasting Commission 540
Australian Bureau of Census and Statistics 587 - 588, 593
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (A.C.I.A.R.) 62 - 63
Australian Chemical Holdings 683
Australian Chemical Institute 114
Australian Coal Industries Research Laboratories Ltd (A.C.I.R.L.) 755
Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories 709
Australian Committee on Computation and Automatic Control (A.N.C.C.A.C.) 596
Australian computer development 584 - 589, first courses in computing 588 - 589, research in 580 - 581, systems 586t, 587 - 589
Australian Computer Research Board (A.C.R.B.) 580
Australian Computer Society (A.C.S.) 596
Australian Consolidated Industries (A.C.I.) 243, 618 - 619, 646, 911
Australian Consumers' Association 798 - 800
Australian Cotton Textile Industries Ltd (A.C.T.I.L.), Woodville, S.A. 299
Australian Dairy Corporation 138, 139
Australian Dairy Research Committee 120, 139
Australian Defence Scientific Service (A.D.S.S.) 919 - 925, data processing and computing 919 - 921, Malkara and Ikara 921 - 922i, predecessor to Defence Science and Technology Organisation 956, satellites and intercontinentals 922 - 923
Australian Development Aid Bureau 214
Australian Engineering Standards Association 905
Australian Explosives and Chemical Company Ltd 609, 610
Australian Forest Industries, Myrtleford 230, 252
Australian Forestry Council 206
Australian Frozen Meat Export Company, Melbourne 90 - 91
Australian Gas Light Company 638, 750, 816, 818i
Australian Geomechanics Society 746
Australian Geosciences Council 746
Australian Government Offsets Program 695
Australian Industrial Research and Development Incentive Scheme (A.I.R.D.I.S.) 695
Australian Inland Mission 509, 541
Australian Inoculant Research and Control Service 48
Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology 85
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (A.I.N.S.E.) 794
Australian Institute of Physics 746
Australian Institute of Quarrying 746
Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (A.I.D.A.B.) 62
Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd (A.I.S.) 320, 722, 858, 860, 863, 864
Australian Journal of Dairy Technology 118 - 119, 122
Australian Knitting Mills, Melbourne 279, 280
Australian Lightweight Air Warning 914
Australian Lithofracture Company (Krebs Patent) Ltd 609
Australian LRV (tram) 467i
Australian Manufacturing Council 893
Australian Meat Company, London 80
Australian Merino Society 54 - 55
Australian Milking Zebu (A.M.Z.) 50 - 51
Australian Mineral Development Laboratories 709, 713, 716, 744, 755, 798
Australian Mineral Foundation (A.M.F.) 745
Australian Mineral Industries Research Association xv, 709, 713, 716, 744 - 745
Australian Mines and Metals Association xv
Australian Mining Industry Council xv
Australian Motoring Association 479
Australian Moulding Corporation 662
Australian National Airways (A.N.A.) (second) 507 - 508
Australian National Airways (first) 505
Australian National Industries 928
Australian National Line (A.N.L.) 515
Australian National Railways 379, 450 - 451, 473i
Australian National Research Council Meat Freezing Committee 115
Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd (A.N.M.) 247 - 249i, 253 - 254, 254
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (A.N.S.T.O.) 792
Australian Objective Measurement Project (A.O.M.P.) 291 - 292
Australian Oxygen Company 618, 624
Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd (A.P.M.) 210, 211, 214, 215, 245, 247 - 254, 255, 255i, 256, 646
Australian Paper Mills Co. Pty Ltd 245
Australian Patents Office 586, solar heat patents 778 - 779
Australian Petrochemicals Ltd (A.P.L.) 668i
Australian pillar terminal 542i, 543
Australian Post Office (A.P.O.) 545, 546, 548, 549, 550 - 552, 1959-60 Annual Report 561, detection of faults on open wire systems 564 - 565, establishes ANSO committee 554, international telephone signalling system no.6 559 - 560, 560, optical fibre research 570 - 571, technical publications 551 - 552, telex services 552 - 553i
Australian Pulp and Paper Mills (A.P.P.M.) 242, 246 - 247, 247 - 249, 249 - 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258 - 259
Australian Research Laboratories 510
Australian Shipbuilding Industries, Kwinana, W.A. 517
Australian Steam Navigation Company 517
Australian Sugar Company 108, 830
Australian Synthetic Rubber Company Ltd 675
Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board 580
Australian timbers 225, 226 - 227, 228 - 229, as structural materials 316 - 320, quality of 234, 312, standards 234 - 235
Australian Towel Weaving Mills, Auburn, N.S.W. 280
Australian Tree Seed Centre 214
Australian Underground Construction and Tunnelling Association 746
Australian United Paint Company (A.U.P.) 683
Australian Universities' International Development Program 63
Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (A.V.C.C.) 63
Australian Water Resources Council 191
Australian Wine Research Institute, Adelaide 106, 119, 120, 126
Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd 870
Australian Wire Rope Works Pty Ltd 852, 869 - 870
Australian Wool Corporation 290, 291, 297
Australian Wool Testing Authority 291
Australian-Asian Universities' Cooperation Scheme 63
Automatic Disturbance Recording (A.D.R.) 566 - 567
Automatic Electric Company (A.E.C.) 537, 539
automatic electronic computation 587 - 588
Automatic Network and Switching Objectives (A.N.S.O.) Committee 554, 562 - 563
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (A.S.C.C.) 588 - 589
automatic switching equipment 545 - 546, Australia's first international exchange 559
Automatic Telephone and Electrical Co. Ltd (AT. & E.) 559
automatic totalizator 839 - 840
Automatic Trunk Transmission Testing 565 - 566
automotive components 881 - 886
automotive industry 867 - 869, Aeronautical Research Laboratories 502 - 503, air services 505 - 510, Australian Aircraft Consortium 504, aviation 496 - 512, development of air transport 505 - 507, development of employment in aircraft production 502, establishment of Department of Air Production 501 - 502, establishment of first aircraft manufacturing industry 497 - 499, Government Aircraft Factories 501 - 502, 502, ground aids 510 - 512, local inventions 496 - 499, pilotless target aircraft and guided weapons design and development 502, private industrial initiatives 503, safety innovations 510 - 512, specialised aircraft companies 498 - 501, Weapons Research Establishment 503
aviation ground aids 510 - 512
aviation safety innovations 510 - 512
Avro 505
AXE system 569 - 570, 576 - 574
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