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Mitchell & Mitchell
Patent Office
Fisk, Ernest
Taylor, James
Warren, William Henry
David Jones 'Acousticises' Its Auditorium March 1934
Monorail structure 1988-2013, Pyrmont Bridge 2005
Mr PN Russell, a generous donor to the Sydney University 1895
Residence of E.K. Morse, Dangar Island, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. Australia 1887-1889
Wireless Wizardry: A Sydney experiment August 1919

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Engineering disciplines

Mitchell & Mitchell

Motor engineers and auctioneers.

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Patent Office

NSW government body established in August 1887 to grant patents. The NSW patents system had been established in 1852 by the Inventions Registration Act, and the first Registrations of Inventions were granted in 1855, administered by the Attorney General's department. The establishment of the Patent Office and the role of Examiner of Patents also a reduction in the fee to apply to register an invention from £20 to £5. Prior to the establishment of the Patent Office, the fees were distributed amongst the staff of the Attorney-General's department. The last patents issued by the NSW Patent Office were in 1904, when the Patent Offices in all the states were federated.

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Fisk, Ernest

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Radio engineer who promoted the potential of wireless communications and was the founding director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd.

Taylor, James

Topographical draughtsman attached to the 48th Regiment who created a series of watercolours on paper which, when joined together, formed a panorama of Sydney in 1820.

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Warren, William Henry

Civil engineer who became the first Professor of Engineering at the University of Sydney.

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David Jones 'Acousticises' Its Auditorium March 1934

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National Library of Australia
[Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant, 12 March 1934, p73]

Monorail structure 1988-2013, Pyrmont Bridge 2005

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By
Ian Bowie
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Ian Bowie

Mr PN Russell, a generous donor to the Sydney University 1895

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National Library of Australia
[The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 7 December 1895, p1171 via Trove]

Residence of E.K. Morse, Dangar Island, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. Australia 1887-1889

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Library of Congress
[Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:086, Photo 61 [P&P]]

Wireless Wizardry: A Sydney experiment August 1919

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[Casino and Kyogle Courier, 30 August 1919, p4 via Trove]

Education and Research

Aeronautical engineering

Chemical engineering

Civil engineering

Energy engineering

Engineering Profession

Environmental engineering

Gas engineering

Harbour works

Heavy engineering

Hydrology

Industrial Design

Railway engineering

Road engineering

Surveying