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S.A. - South Australia
S.W.P.A. - South West Pacific Area
Tas. - Tasmania
Vic. - Victoria
W.A. - Western Australia
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B-MAC (B type Multiplexed Analogue Components) 579 - 580
B. F. Goodrich (U.S.A.) 639
B. F. Goodrich Chemical Ltd 675 - 676
B.A.S.F. (Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrick) 487, 638, 664
B.A.S.F. Australia Ltd 676, 676, 694
B.H.P. acquires Bethlehem International Engineering Corp. 865 - 866, adapts industrial gas turbine for marine use 516 - 517, and Charles Rasp 632 - 633, buys out Rheem Manufacturing Co. interests 870 - 871, cheapest producer 723 - 724, establishes Whyalla steel works 354 - 355, Hydrocarbon Products Pty Ltd formed 668 - 670, iron and steel industry 717, 721 - 722, 840 - 841, 849 - 854, joins syndicate to set up aircraft manufacturing plant 499, joint venture with Newcastle Chemicals 641 - 643, mineral acids and fertiliser industry 640, Newcastle steel works 320, 849 - 852, 903, northwest shelf oil and gas joint venture 430, oil exploration 769 - 772, sintering 722, steel production for manufacture of guns 908, takes over Australian Iron and Steel 858 - 859, takes over John Lysaght (Aust) 865 - 866, wire products 851 - 853
B.H.P. Melbourne Research Laboratories 475, 646, 866, 867, 867 - 868
B.H.P. Shortland Laboratories 744
B.H.P. Steel International. Coated Products Division 692, 859 - 860, 865 - 866, 868 - 869, 886
B.H.P. Steel International. Long Products Division 866, manufacture rail tracks 475 - 476, opening of Whyalla Rail Plant 866 - 867
B.H.P. Steel International. Rod and Bar Division 861, 861i
B.H.P. Steel International. Slab and Plate Division 859, automotive steels 867 - 869, controlled rolled low carbon steel 867 - 868, HIC Resistant steel 867 - 868
B.O.C. Group (British Oxygen Co.) 854
B.P. Solar Australia 779, 780, 787
Babcock, S. M. 99, 99, 114 - 113, 143
Bacchus Marsh Concentrated Milk Company 100
Bach, John 435, 435, 436, 437, 438, 440, 440
Baekeland, L. H. 664
bagasse 751d, 752t, 795 - 798, 822 - 823, 887 - 888
Bailey, V. A. 586
Bairnsdale School of Mines 743
Bajool, Qld, salt production 406
Baker and Rouse Australia Laboratory 842, 842
Bakewell, Robert 4
baking, in the colonies 72 - 73, bread making 96 - 97, other products 97 - 99
Baldwins Ltd 858
BALLARA 930
Ballarat Meat Preserving Company 84, 833
Ballarat Pastoral and Agricultural Society 9
Ballarat School of Mines 702, 743
Ballarat sewerage plant, Vic. 799
Ballarat, Vic. effects of gold rush 832 - 835, effects of railways 835 - 837
ballistite 608, 610, 610 - 611
BALM Paints 639, 640, 683 - 684, 686 - 687, 687
Banting, Sir Frederick Grant 627
Barber, A. E. 282
Barker's Textiles, Portland 299
Barker, Thomas 273
Barnet Glass Rubber Co. Ltd 881
basalts, as building materials 312
Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (B.O.S.) 723
Bass Strait, oil fields 414 - 416, 417 - 419, 419 - 420, 770, 770 - 772, 773 - 776, 776 - 777
Basser, Sir Adolph 589, 590, 591
Bates, Smart and McCutcheon 384, 385i, 386
bauxite concrete 329
bauxite, alumina 701, 725 - 729, Darling Ranges, W.A. 728, Gove, NT. 728, refineries 727 - 728, research and development achievements 728 - 729, smelters 725 - 728, 728 - 729, Weipa bauxite cliffs 727i
Bayer (Germany) 621, 638, 689 - 690, 841
Bayer Farbenfabriken 638
Bayley, I. A. E. 194
Beasley Industries Pty Ltd 779, 782, 782
Becquerel, Antoine H. 791
Beek-Koller (Austria) 639, 683
Beilby, Sir George 925
Bell and Coleman, Glasgow 90
Bell Telephone Manufacturing Co. (B.T.M.) 563, 569
Bell, Alexander 530
Bell, Marcus 901, 903, 904, 905
Belmont Red cattle 50
Beloit-Walmsley Ltd, U.K. 253
Beltana, S.A., camel breeding station 446
Bendigo School of Mines 702, 743
Bennett, J. M 589, 592, 596, 596
benzene 668
benzene hexachloride 644 - 646
Bessemer, H. 849
Besser Vibrapac machine 326
Bethlehem International Engineering Corporation (B.I.E.C.) 865
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 864, 865
Beyer Peacock, Manchester 456, 460
biochemistry, beginning of 112, advances in 112 - 119, in the fish industry 124 - 126, in the meat industry 123 - 124
biological resources, imported 46
Bionic Ear 889 - 890, 890i, 956
biotechnology and energy research, development and demonstration (N.E.R.D.D.P.) 695 - 697
Bishop Rotary Valve 883 - 884, 883i
Bitumen Oil Refineries (Australia) Ltd (B.O.R.A.L.) 666, 667
Bituminous Coal Association 767
Black Arrow 934
black liquor oxidation 254 - 256
black powder (explosive) 608, 613
Blainey, G. 435, 437, 440, 441, 442, 443, 513, on minerals and mining 701, 712 - 713, 715 - 716
Bleasdale, Dr J. I 91, 105, 112
blood products
Blue Mts, crossing of 347 - 348
Blue Streak 920 - 921, 922, 922i, 924
boilers, general purpose 823 - 825
boiling down 8, 76 - 77, 79 - 80
bombs 930
Boondall Sports and Entertainment Centre, Brisbane 321
Borg Warner transmissions and rear axles 487
Bornhorst and Ward Pty Ltd 323
boron-fluoride-chromium-arsenic (B.F.C.A.) (timber preservative) 232 - 233
Bosisto's Eucalyptus Oil 618
Bosisto, J. 236, 618, 618 - 619, 620, 620 - 621
Botany Meat Preserving Company, Sydney 82, 82
Botany Petrochemical Complex 670 - 674i
Bougainville Copper Ltd 741 - 742, 742i
Boulton, Mathew 827
Boultonizing process (timber preservation) 232 - 233
Bourne, Daniel 268
Bowden, A. T 586, 587 - 588
Bowden, F. P. 612, 612i, 614, 615
Bowden/Mulcahy (C.S.I.R.O.) experimental hammer 612i, 614, 615
Bowen Basin coalfield, Qld 765
Bowen Basin, Qld, electrification of coal railways 472 - 473
Bradfield, Dr J. J. C. 426, 468
Bradfield, Dr K. N. E. 390 - 393
Bradley's Head Lighthouse, Sydney 326
Braford cattle 50
brake fluids 673
brake products 846 - 848, 882 - 883
Brambles Transport Company 478
Brangus cattle 50
bread making 96 - 97, Brimec process 119, Chorleywood process 119, function of gluten 97, 113, 119
Bread Research Institute, Sydney 119, 119
brewing advances introduced 70 - 72, 143 - 144, Australian practice 103 - 105, brewing chemistry 116, Carlton and United 123, 143, in the colonies 72 - 74, 101 - 104, lager brewing technology 143 - 144
brewing and soft drinks 835 - 838
bridge construction arch, masonry 312, 312i, 359i, 360 - 361, 361i, 361i, arch, steel 321, 360, 361, box girder 321, 355i, 360 - 361, 361i, cable stayed, steel 321, 360 - 361, cantilever, balanced 327 - 328, 328i, 328d, 357 - 358, 360 - 361, tied-arch, steel 321, 360 - 361
bridge materials composite 360 - 361, concrete 327 - 329i, 328d, 359 - 360, 361i, iron 321, 361i, masonry 312, 312i, 359i, 360 - 361, precast prestressed concrete 326 - 327, 327 - 328, 328 - 329, 360i, 361i, reinforced concrete 359 - 360, steel 321, 360, 360 - 361, 426 - 427, timber 316 - 317, 317i
bridges 312, 312i, 314 - 315, 316 - 317, 355i, 355i, 358 - 360, 360 - 361, early 312, 312i, 314 - 315, 316 - 317, 358 - 360, 360 - 361
bridges, named Albert Street Railway Bridge, Brisbane 352, Barwon River Bridge, Geelong 321, Batman Bridge, Tas. 360i, 360 - 361, Bayonne Bridge, N.Y. 426, Bowen Bridge, Derwent River, Tas. 327 - 328, 328i, 357, 361i, Captain Cook Bridge, Sydney 355, Coal River Bridge, Richmond, Tas. 359i, 361, Coliban River Bridge, Malmsbury, Vic. 361, 361i, Fitzroy River Suspension Bridge, Rockhampton 321, Fyansford Bridge, Geelong 360, 360i, Gateway Bridge, Brisbane River 328, 328d, 360 - 361, Gladesville Bridge, Sydney 327, 360i, 361, Grey Street Bridge, Brisbane 354, Hawkesbury Railway Bridge 348, 351, 351d, Hawkesbury River expressway bridge 355, Kiewa River Bridge, Bandiana 316 - 317, 317i, Lamington Bridge, Maryborough, Qld 360, Lansdowne Bridge, Sydney 359, Lockyer Creek bridge, Helidon, Qld 361i, Macquarie River Bridge, Ross, Tas. 312, 312i, 361, McKillops Bridge, Snowy River, Vic. 321, Merivale Bridge, Brisbane River, Qld 321, Merivale Rail Bridge, Brisbane 325i, 360 - 361, 471i, Morell Bridge, Melbourne 360, Murrumbidgee Bridge, Wagga Wagga 316 - 317, Narrows Bridge, Perth 355, Nepean River Bridge, Menangle, N.S.W. 361i, Spencer Street Bridge, Melbourne 354, Sydney Harbour Bridge 321, 360, 361, 424d, 426i, Taradale Viaduct, Vic. 359i, Tasman Bridge, Hobart 355, The Rip Bridge, Brisbane Water, N.S.W. 327, Westgate Bridge, Yarra River, Melbourne 321, 355i, 360, Yarra River Bridge, Hawthorn 321
Bridgestone Australia Ltd 884 - 885
Bridgestone Tyre Co. of Japan 884
Brisbane electric railway system 470 - 472i, gas lighting 815 - 817, telephone system 538 - 539
Brisbane Airport 390i
Brisbane River ship channel 345
British Australian Wool Realisation Association (B.A.W.R.A.) 279
British Board of Trade Rules 457
British Dyestuffs Corporation 639
British Dynamite Company 609
British Insulated and Helsby Cables Co. Ltd 878
British Insulated Callenders Cables 878
British Motor Corporation 484, 486
British Nylon Spinners 652
British Oxygen Company 854
British Paints 683
British Post Office (B.P.O.) 539, 546, 558
British Royal Aero Club Design Competition (1952) 503
British Sten gun 862 - 863, 915
British Tube Mills (Aust) Pty Ltd 854
broadband coaxial cables 549, 550 - 551, 563 - 564, 563t, 564i, 564i, 564 - 565, 575m
broadcasting 535 - 536, 540 - 541, 551 - 552, FM radio 551 - 552, remote area 578 - 579
Brockman Iron Formation, W.A 717, 718
Brockoffs 140
Broken Hill discovery 702, 711 - 712, extractive metallurgy based on B.H. products 714, flotation process 702, 712 - 713, 744, froth flotation process 711 - 713, grades 715 - 716, its technology 710 - 716
Broken Hill Associated Smelters Ltd (B.H.A.S.) xiv, 499, 635, 683
Broken Hill flotation process 632 - 633
Broken Hill South Ltd , xvi, 246 - 247
brown coal 394 - 398, 635, dredger 807i, for electricity 807 - 808, for gas 820 - 821
Brunner Mond and Co. 639
buildings, named Australia Square Tower, Sydney 327, 385, 385i, Australian National Animal Health Laboratory (A.N.A.H.L.), Geelong 389i, 389, BHP House, Melbourne 321, Caltex House, Sydney 326, Cape Otway Lighthouse 315 - 317, Casey Station, Australian Antarctic Territory 388d, Centrepoint Tower, Sydney 321, 324, Collins Place, Melbourne 386i, Entertainment Centre, Brisbane 323, Entertainment Centre, Sydney 321 - 323, ICI House, Melbourne 385i, 385, Macquarie Lighthouse, South Head, Port Jackson 384, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Building 386, Melbourne Public Library 326, Menzies-at-Rialto Hotel, Melbourne 387, MLC Centre, Sydney 327, 385i, 385, Nauru House, Melbourne 327, Parliament House (New), Canberra 388i, Parliament House, Hobart 312, Qantas Tower, Sydney 384, Queensland Cultural Centre, Brisbane 387i, Rialto, Melbourne 328 - 329, 329i, 387, St. Luke's Church, Liverpool 384, St. Matthew's Church, Windsor 384, 384i, State Library of Victoria 384, Sydney Opera House 424i, 424 - 425i, Sydney Railway Station 384, TAA Terminal, Sydney Airport 384, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne 356, 387
bulk cargo carriers 514 - 517, 518, 518 - 519
bulk cargo ports 343 - 345, 514
bullock drays 443 - 445, 452, table top 443 - 444
Bumbunga, Lake, S.A., salt production 406
Bundaleer, S.A. 210
Burdekin Delta Scheme, Qld 161 - 164
Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations 51 - 52, 110, 114, 822
Burmah Oil 773
Burrup Peninsula, W.A, domestic gas plant 430i, 430i
Burston and Company, Melbourne 103
Busby's Bore, Sydney 150 - 151, 313 - 314, 314 - 315, 608
buses and coaches 494 - 495, Sydney system 494
Butement, Dr W. A. S. 918 - 919, 919i, 919, 935
Buttle, - 624
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