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Technology in Australia 1788-1988Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
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Table of Contents

Chapter 6

I Construction During The Settlement Years

II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material

III Structural Steel

IV Concrete Technology

V Housing

VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing

VII Ports And Harbours

VIII Roads

IX Heavy Foundations

X Bridges

XI Sewerage

XII Water Engineering

XIII Railways

XIV Major Buildings

XV Airports

XVI Thermal Power Stations
i Steam Power Stations Using Brown Coal
ii Fabric Filters for Coal Fired Power Stations
iii Thermal Electricity Generation in Queensland
iv Conversion of Kwinana Power Station from Oil to Coal Firing
v Remote Area Power Supply Alternatives in Western Australia

XVII Materials Handling

XVIII Oil Industry

XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme

XX The Sydney Opera House

XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge

XXII Hamersley Iron

XXIII North West Shelf

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Sound Attenuators for Power Station Discharge Stacks (continued)

Following smaller installations on industrial boilers of attenuators resulting from this development programme Howden are now supplying silencers for installation on all units of Australia's largest power station at Eraring in New South Wales. This contract is for eight silencers each 7.5mx7.5mx8.2m and weighing 135 tonnes and was won in competition with designs from Europe and the U.S.A. Howden are now marketing this silencer design in Europe and North America.


Organisations in Australian Science at Work - James Howden and Co. Australia Pty Ltd; thermal power stations, named

People in Bright Sparcs - Sutherland, K. N.

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