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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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R. Landau's Scientific Design 672
R.A.A.F. Aircraft Research and Development Unit 927, 932 - 933, 948
R.A.A.F. Experimental Aircraft Station, Randwick 498, 498
R.A.A.F. Special Duties Performance Flight 932 - 933
rabbits 44 - 46, canned 81 - 82
radar 543, 914i, 914, 942, 954, 954 - 955
radio 535 - 536, first message from England 536, high powered stations established 536, Marconi School of Wireless 544 - 545, outback pedal radio 540 - 541, Royal Commission 540 - 541
Radio Australia 543, Shepparton Array 543i, 543i, 551 - 552
Radio Research Board 541, 550, 580t, 580
radio telegraph service 536
radio telephone, service to England 536
radio telephony research 550 - 551
rails 866 - 868, Head Hardened 866 - 867, insulation pad 867, 867i, steel sleepers 866 - 867i, 867i, Wilclip fastener 867, 867i
railway bridges 325i, 326, 348 - 349, 350 - 353, 351d, 359i, 360 - 361, 361i, 379 - 380i
railway gauges 448 - 451, bogie exchange 450 - 451
railway location 451 - 452, 474 - 477
railway locomotives, named Fairlie steam locomotive 455, Garratt steam locomotive 460, Mallet steam locomotive 460, Meyer steam locomotive 460, Beyer - Garratt locomotive 460i, British engineering practice 454 - 455, Clyde-GM diesel electric locomotive 473i, GMI-class diesel electric locomotive 473i, motor railcars 460 - 464, railway locomotive and rolling stock 454 - 456i, 458 - 460, steam locomotive practice 460 - 462, the Garratt 460
railway network, early 374 - 376, 376 - 380
railway signalling and telecommunications 455 - 458, 458 - 460, 464 - 465, 469 - 470, 471 - 472
railway sleepers 231 - 233, 374 - 378, 451 - 454, 475, 'double sleeper' 374 - 376, 383
railway tracks 376 - 378, 451 - 454, 458 - 460, 475 - 477
railways 374 - 384, 448 - 477, 1900-1988 457 - 460, a major employer 835 - 837, adoption of systems engineering approach 475, Centralised Train Control 380, 464, concept of 373 - 374, development of heavy 381 - 382, 475 - 477i, expenditure on 482 - 483, first 374 - 376, 448 - 449, introduction of second generation diesel electric locomotives 380, 471 - 475, national system of 374 - 376, standard gauge 379 - 380, 449 - 450, Victorian narrow gauge 374, XPT 449 - 450, 449i
railways, named Central Australian Railway 378, Central London Railway 459, Central Railway of Peru 451, Great Indian Peninsula Railway 451, Great Zig Zag railway, Lithgow, N.S.W. 360, 378i, 451, Melbourne Underground Rail Loop 374 - 378, 383d, Flinders Street, Melbourne-Sandridge railway 374, Kalamunda near Perth, zig zag railway 451 - 452, Port Augusta - Hergott Springs railway 378, Port Augusta-Quorn railway 378, Queensland coalfields railways 382, Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway 379, Trans Australia Railway 378, 448 - 449
rain forests, management of 208 - 209, restrictions on logging 240 - 241, woods 239 - 240
Ranger Uranium Mines Pty Ltd 793
Rapier 934
Raws, Sir Lennon 635, 639 - 640, 906
rayon spinning industry 679 - 680
reconstituted wood products 239 - 245
refrigeration advances in 70 - 72, 110 - 111, 143 - 144, development of 18 - 20, 142 - 143, first shipment of meat to England 89 - 90, 513, household 92 - 93, invention of 749 - 751, James Harrison's techniques 89, mechanical 73 - 74, Nicolle's techniques 89, of meat 74 - 75, problems in meat 90 - 91, 92 - 93, use of for milk products 99 - 101
regulation of foods 70 - 72, 123 - 126, 128 - 129, 130 - 132, 134, 142 - 143
Reichhold (U.S.A.) 639, 683, 689, 694
reinforced concrete building panels 326
remote sensing in land assessment 37 - 38, of the environment 942
Repco Corporation Ltd 244, 290, 483, 646, 882 - 883
Repco-Brabham engine 882 - 883
research and development dependent industries 600 - 601
Research Institute for Marine Pharmacology 630
Retic boring machine 365i
reticulation systems 173 - 174
Rheem Australia Ltd 779, 870 - 871
Rheem Manufacturing Company of U.S.A. 870 - 871
rhizobial bacteria, introduction of 47 - 49
'Rhizobium Newsletter' 48 - 49
Rhyssa (wasp) 221
Ridley Stripper 835
rinderpest 46
ring barking 749
Risdon, S.A. zinc production 714, 715
Ritchie, Samuel Sextus 80 - 82, 112, 129
river ports, named Albury, N.S.W. 438 - 439, Bourke, N.S.W. 438 - 439, Echuca, Vic. 438 - 439, 439 - 440, Swan Hill, Vic. 438 - 439, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. 438 - 439, Walgett, N.S.W 438 - 439
river transport paddle steamers 438 - 439, 439 - 440, 439i, ports 438 - 439
Rivett, Sir David 32, 640, 905
roadmaking 348 - 350, 481 - 482, 482 - 483, first use of macadam 348 - 349, 348d, spray and chip seal method 348 - 349
Robe River Mining 718
Robert Bosch (Australia) Pty Ltd 885
Robert Corbett Pty Ltd 625, 680
Robinson Bros. 530
Robinson, Dr (later Prof.) T. J. 55 - 56
Robinson, W. S. xiii, xiii, xiv, 906
Robison Bros., Melbourne 81, 103
Rocke Thompsitt, Melbourne 619
rocla roller suspension vibrospin process 326
Roelen, O. 680
Rofe, Brian 922
Rogers, J. S. 910
Rohm & Hass Corporation 689
roll-on roll-off vessels 514 - 515
roller milling, introduced 72 - 73, 76 - 77, 94, 110 - 111, originally an Hungarian invention 143 - 144, to Australia 94 - 95
Rose, G. A. 586i, 587, 592 - 593, 595
Rosemorrin Smelting Works, Lane Cove 831
Roseworthy Agricultural College, S.A. 21, 21, 106, 106, 603, 603
Rothamstead Experimental Station (previously Laboratory) 603
ROUND UP (glyphosphate) 651 - 652
Royal Air Force (R.A.F) 506
Royal Australian Air Force (R.A.A.F.) 391, 392, 498, 498, 499 - 500, 500 - 501, 503
Royal Australian Chemical Institute 746
Royal Australian Naval Research Laboratories (R.A.N.R.L.) 942, 951, 955
Royal Australian Navy 921 - 922, 932
Royal Australian Survey Corps 928
Royal Flying Corps (R.F.C.) 505, 506, 507
Royal Flying Doctor Service 496, 499, 502, 507, 509i, 522
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 218, 550
Royal Navy, use of canned foods 77, 78, 78, 79, use of Ikara 922
Royal New Zealand Air Force (R.N.Z.A.F.) 503
Royal Society of New South Wales 830, 902
Royal Thai Air Force 503
RP 39 G 776
Ruakura Research Centre, N.Z. 58
rural automatic exchanges (RAX) 540, 547 - 548
Rural Industry Research Funds 26 - 27, 26 - 27, 34, 34, 34, 34
Rylands Bros., (Aust.) Ltd 852, 869 - 870, 869i
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