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Engineering disciplines

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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

Professor WH Warren 1898

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

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

After two years’ service with the New South Wales Department of Public Works, Warren initiated the teaching of engineering at the University of Sydney in March 1883. He remained Head of the Department of Engineering until his retirement at the end of 1925.

Warren’s main interest was in materials and structures. He was the author of three editions of a widely used textbook: the first Australia-based publication in this field. He also imported Australia’s first materials testing machine in 1885, the results from which on Australian materials were of national importance.