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m - map
t - table

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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C. D. Haywood Pty Ltd 98

C.B.H. Grain Terminal, Kwinana 355

C.I.L. (Canadian Industries Ltd), Canada 255, 613, 615

C.S.R. Chemicals Ltd 624, 625, 639, 676, 676, 680 - 681

C.S.R.C-Dow 676, 680

cabbage tree palms, for roofing 313

Cable and Wireless (C. & W.) 553, 558 - 559

cable television 582 - 583

cable trams 466, 466i

Cablemakers Australia Ltd 804, 878

CAD (Computer-aided-design) displays in train signalling 464, transferred from defence research 956 - 957

Cadell, Francis 438

Cahill, J. J. 590

calculators 584 - 586, 588 - 589, analogue 584 - 586, 586, 591, digital 584 - 586, 587 - 588, patents for 586 - 587

California Bearing Ratio (CBR) 391, 392

Callide Valley, Qld 161 - 164

Callister, C. P. 101, 116

CAM (Computer-aided modelling) in water resource planning and management 160 - 161, 168 - 171, 195 - 196, 196 - 197, 200 - 201

Cameron McNamara Pty Lid 325

Cameron, I. G. 320 - 325

Campbell's Wharf, Sydney Cove 339

Campbell, Archie 478

Campbell, G. S. 229

Campbell, Robert 513 - 519

can industry, beginnings 839 - 840

can openers 855 - 856

can-making and canning 70 - 72, 839 - 840, beer cans 84 - 85, detail of process 82d, first period 77 - 80, jam 86 - 88, mechanisation of 83 - 85, modern period 84 - 88, second period of 79 - 85, vegetables 87 - 88

Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation 558 - 559

Canberra, A.C.T., water supply system 195 - 196

Candy Filter Company 174

Cane-ite 242

CANTAT (U.K.-Canada) 558 - 559

Capricornia Electricity Board 805

Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education 244

car body building industry 480 - 481, 481 - 482

car engines and components 882 - 884

car storage battery 881 - 882

car tyres 881

Carba Dry Ice 618

Carbide and Electro Products Ltd 809

carbon bisulphide 617 - 618, 625 - 626

carbon dioxide 624 - 625

cargo handling techniques 514, 517 - 521

caries inhibition 658 - 659

Carlton and United Brewery 123

Carlton Brewery 85, 104, 116 - 117

Carne, P. B. 220

Carothers, W. M. 284

Carr-Price method 122

Carrington Slipways Pty Ltd, Newcastle 517, 520, 947

Carrum sewerage plant, Vic. 799

Carrum Waste Water Treatment Plants, Vic. 366

carry-over storages 164 - 166

Carson, Rachel 645

Carter, R. S. 397

Cartwright, Edmund 265, 268

Casella 638 - 639

Casey, J. L 23

Casimir, D. 1 85

Castner Kellner electrolytic processes 639

Catherine Hill Bay, N.S.W. 46

cattle, early breeding of 18 - 20, breeding beef for Northern Australia 48 - 51, breeding dairy for Northern Australia 50 - 51, cattle tickicide 655 - 656, imported breeds 18 - 20, worm killing drug for 641 - 643

caustic chlorine cells, Yarraville 644 - 645

caustic soda 624 - 625

Cavallucci, V. L. 574

Cawthon, E. R. 582

C.C.I.T.T. (International Consultative Committee for Telephony and Telegraphy) 551, 552, 557, 559 - 560, Interim Telephone Signalling System No.5 559, Specification and Description Language (SDL) 581, Telephone Signalling System No.6 559 - 561, Telephone Signalling System No.7 571 - 572, 578

Celanese Corporation 683

Cellulose Australia Ltd 211, 251, 252

cement fibre pipes 845 - 848, asbestos free products 846 - 848

cement handling 411 - 413

Cement Linings Ltd 848

cement penetration macadam road construction 326

Central Queensland Meat Export Company, Rockhampton 91

Central Queensland Meat Preserving Company 85

Central Studies Establishment (C.S.E.) 943

Central Wool Committee 284

Chadwick, Sir James 791

Chaffey, George 143, 158 - 159, 840

Chaffey, W. B 143

Chaine, E. B 616

Chamber of Mines, Victoria xv

Chamber of Mines, W.A xv

Chamberlain, Albert William 484

Chambers, Enoch 81

Chandler, B. V. 123

Chapman, Dr Wilfred 415

Chapple, M. E. 592

charcoal and wood distillation products 237 - 238

Charles Atkins Pty Ltd 694

Charlton, P. 898

Charters, W. W. 790

Chateau Muller, C. W. 103

Cheese Industry Productivity Improvement Project (C.I.P.I.P.) 138

cheese making 99, 100 - 101, 126 - 127, 127, 130 - 132, 136 - 139, processed 138 - 139

Cheetham, R. 618 - 619

chemical industry , beginnings 602 - 604, chemists in other industries 632 - 634, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories 627 - 629, explosives 607 - 615, factory research and development 644 - 646, fertilisers 603 - 606, growth of synthetic chemicals 637 - 646, impact of English experience 599 - 600, industrial chemical research beginnings 607 - 608, industrial chemical research laboratories 645 - 662, innovative organic syntheses 641 - 645, international chemical firms 639 - 643, modern chemical industry 634 - 638, nature of Australian 600 - 601, pharmaceuticals 616 - 633, plastics 659 - 683, raw materials from gas and coke industry 605 - 608, science-technology gap 599 - 601, Scottish influence 599 - 600, trends in the 1980s 694 - 697

chemists, government 117

chemotherapy 616 - 624, 629 - 632, 632 - 633

Chempatents xx

Cherry and Sons, Gisborne 99

Cherry, T. M 590

Chevron Group 430

Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation 390, 392

Chifley, J. B 486i

Child, W. K. 108

Chisholm Institute of Technology 590

chloral hydrate 617 - 618

chlorine 625 - 626

chlorine-Hercosett process 289 - 290, 295 - 296

chlorodyne 617 - 618

chloroform 619 - 620

chlorsulphonic acid 624 - 625

Christensen, F. J. 230

Christian, Dr C. S. 37

Christian, J. H. B 127, 128

Christiansen, Dr Wilbur 553

chromatography 122, 123, 648, 648 - 649, 649, gas liquid 648 - 649

chromite 701

chromium technology 928 - 929

Chrysler 484, 486, 491

City of Melbourne Gas Coke Company 816

Civil and Civic 327 - 328

Clapp, Francis B 466

Clapp, Sir Harold 466

Clark, Donald 700

Clark, Heaton 848

Clark, Sir Lindesay xi - xvi

Clarkson, Commander W. 901

Clendinnen, F. W. J. 104, 116

clipper ships 439 - 440, 440 - 442

clover, aerial seeding 604 - 605

Clunies-Ross, Sir Ian 590, 648

Clyde Engineering Company 855

Clyde Industries Ltd 887 - 888

Clyde Windmill 887 - 888

Clyde-Ryley Dodds Pty Ltd 888

coaching companies, named Cobb and Co. 445 - 446, The Adams Express Company 445, The American Telegraph Line of Coaches 445, Wells Fargo 445

coaching services 444 - 445, 445 - 446

coal 700, 701, 751 - 753, 751 - 753, 752t, 752t, 754 - 755, 754 - 757, 755 - 757, 758 - 763, 758 - 770, 758 - 760i, 758 - 770, 762 - 763, 763 - 767, 767, 767, 767 - 769, 767 - 770, 798 - 800, 811 - 812, automation 767 - 770, coalscan ash monitors 755 - 757, electrostatic precipitator 754 - 757, hand mining 758 - 760i, in Hunter Valley 700, in W.A 811 - 812, largest energy source 751 - 753, 798 - 800, mine planning 767 - 769, opencut mining 763 - 767, 767, roof bolting 762 - 763, supply and use 752t, underground mechanisation 758 - 763, 767, world's largest exporter 701, 751 - 753, 752t, 754 - 755

coal exports 264, handling 408 - 409, 409i, 409i

coal feeder layout 397d

Coal Industry Tribunal 761

Coal Preparation Society 746

coast disease 622

coastal surveillance 502 - 503

coastal trading 514 - 517, 517 - 521

Coats Patons (Australia) Ltd 303

Cobb, Freeman 445

Cobdogla, S.A. 158 - 160

Cobia 2 sub sea completion, Bass Strait 418 - 419, 418d

Cochlear Pty Ltd 890, 890i

Cochrane, J. R. S. 611

Cockle Creek Imperial Smelting Furnace 714, 715, 715

Cockle's pills 617 - 618

Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean 46

Codd, Hiram 838

Cohen, L. H. 920

Cohns, Bendigo 104

Colebrook, - 624

Coleman, J. D. 244

Collie River, W.A. 188 - 190

Collins Motors 488

Collins, H. E. 768

Colonial Ammunition Factory 900, 901, 903, 905

Colonial Sugar Refining Company (C.S.R.) 108, 108 - 109, 109 - 110, 110, 117, 118, 242, 603, 607, 624, 680, 822, Research laboratories 645 - 646, 658 - 659

Colquhoun, Alan R. 520 - 521

Colwell, Max 478, 480

Comalco Ltd 727, 727, 728, 871i

Comb Control unit 288 - 289

COMENG 462i, 473 - 474, 494

Common Channel Signalling (CCS) 571 - 572

Common User Data Network (CUDN) 552 - 553

Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science (C.A.C.D.S.) 917

Commonwealth Aeronautical Advisory Research Council (C.A.A.R.C.) 502, 898, 917, 927

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (C.A.C.) 498, 499 - 501, 503, 503, 504, 906, 921, 926 - 927, 928, 948, 955

Commonwealth Arsenal 904 - 906

Commonwealth Cable Conference, Kuala Lumpur 559

Commonwealth Cable Management Committee 559

Commonwealth Defence Science Organisation 120, 949

Commonwealth Fertilisers 624

Commonwealth Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (C.F.& C.), Yarraville, Vic. 603i, 639, 641

Commonwealth Industrial Gases Ltd (C.I.G.) 618, 821, 854 - 855

Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry 905

Commonwealth Litharge and Red Lead Pty Ltd 683

Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board 521

Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd 415

Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board 43

Commonwealth Railways 448 - 449

Commonwealth Rolling Mills (C.R.M.) 860

Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (C.S.L.) 626 - 630i, 629i

Commonwealth Softwood Forestry Agreement Act 210

Commonwealth Solar Observatory 911

Commonwealth Steel Company Ltd 855

Commonwealth Steel Products Company Ltd 855

communications 526 - 586, 1975 and later 567 - 583, Australia's expertise 582 - 583, between 1901 and 1946 532 - 545, electrical communication before Federation 529 - 533, equipment manufacturing 540 - 541, 543, 543 - 544, 545 - 546, 582 - 583, 583i, innovation and initiatives 564 - 568, major technological developments affecting 567 - 568, 574 - 575, non-technical factors affecting 567 - 568, post war and on to 1975 544 - 583, prior to telegraph 527 - 529

communications industry: labour force, professional 544 - 545

Community Telephone Plan for Australia 554 - 557

Comox (Commonwealth Oxygen Ltd) 854

COMPAC (Pacific) 558 - 559, 559 - 560, 576

Complaints Analysis, Recording and Graphing Organisation (C.A.R.G.O.) 565 - 566

Compol Pty Ltd 676

compressed air MURLA shield 366i

computer design and development 592 - 596, Australian developments affecting overseas design 592 - 593, C.S.I.R.O. requirements 592 - 594, Defence requirements 593 - 594, first large scale, on line, multi-user system (DAD) 593 - 594, solid state technology 591 - 594, vacuum tube technology 590 - 591

computer industry, and customer education 594 - 597

computer manufacturers, marketing operations in Australia 591

computer programs DAD 593 - 594, GEORGE programming system 592 - 593

'Computer' socks 304

computer software: after 1965 594 - 596

'Computermatic' machine stress grader 234

computers and computer networks, named ADA 591, AGWAC 591, ARCTURUS 592 - 593, ATROPOS (or DIP) 594 - 596, Bendix D-12 591, C.D.C. 1700 590, Cirrus 586i, 592 - 593, 593 - 594, Control Data 3200 593 - 594, Control Data 3600 593 - 594, CSIRAC 587 - 588, 588 - 589, 589, 590 - 591, 591i, 592 - 593, CSIRONET 593 - 594, DUECE 590, EDSAC 589, EDSAC II 592 - 593, Elliott 396, 591, English Electric KDF9 590, 592 - 593, Ferranti FP 6000 592 - 593, Ferranti Mk I 589, Ferranti Perseus 589, Honeywell H800 593 - 594, IBM 1401 590, IBM 360/50 590, IBM 7074/1401 591, IBM 7090/1401 591, IBM RAMAC 592 - 593, ICL 1900 series 592 - 593, ILLIAC 589, INTERGRAPHIC 594 - 596, MADM 589, PDP8/338 590, SILLIAC 549, 556 - 557, 589, 590, 592, SNOCOM 592i, TREAC 590, 592 - 593, UTECOM 590, 592 - 593, WREDAC 591, 920

computers and computing 584 - 597, first computers 588 - 592, instruments and calculators 584 - 587, large-scale systems, 1958 to 1963 592 - 596, micro electronics 594 - 596, software 594 - 596, technical staff 594 - 597, transition to the computer 586 - 589

Concord Coach 444 - 445

Concrete Constructions (NSW) Pty Ltd 324

Concrete Institute of Australia 327

concrete masonry 326 - 327

concrete pipes 843 - 846, 846 - 849

concrete products 846 - 849

concrete technology 326 - 330, 424 - 425

Conference on Automatic Computing Machines 588

Conference on Computing and Data Processing, Salisbury, 1957 591

Connaught Laboratories 627

Connell, J. W. 374 - 383

Connick, W. 926 - 927

conservation tillage 650 - 652

Consolidated Zinc Pty Ltd 246 - 247, 741

container terminals 341 - 342, 518

'continuous lamination' 657 - 658

Control Data 592 - 593, 593 - 594

convict gangs 442 - 443

convict tramway 442 - 443

Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd (C.R.A.) 741, 744

Coode, Sir John 350

Cook, G. A 115

Cook, James 264, 956

Cook, Melvin A 613, 615

Coombes, Laurie P. 503, 956

Cooper Basin oil fields 343

Cooper, Sir Daniel 607

Coopers Animal Health 655

copper 708 - 711, Burra, S.A. 708, Cornish influence 708 - 709, ISA process 875 - 877, ISAMELT submerged combustion unit 716, Kapunda, S.A. 700, 708, Mt. Isa technology 709, 875 - 877, Mt. Lyell technology 708 - 709, other technology 710 - 711, Panguna, P.N.G. 741 - 743, pyritic smelting 708 - 709, SECOR (Secim Continuous Rod) plant 877 - 878, Townsville 709, wire and cables 877 - 880

copper chrome arsenate (CCA) (timber preservative) 231 - 233

copper mining xv

Copper Refineries Pty Ltd 875 - 878

copper smelters, early 830 - 831

Cordingley, Thomas 80, 82

cordite 610, 610 - 611, 611, 643, 900 - 902, Cordite Factory 901, 904 - 905

Corning Glass Works of the U.S. 570

Cornish, A. E. 587

Cort's puddling process 848 - 849

Cortis-Jones, B. 624

Cosco Holdings Ltd 254

Cosworth Group, U.K. 874

cotton 11 - 13, an export 264 - 265, 266, 276 - 277, brought by first Fleet 264, 276 - 277, during 20th century 279 - 281, during nineteenth century 276 - 277, early use of 267, SIRATAC 65 - 66

Coulson, W. H. 611

counter-current extraction process 695 - 697

Courtaulds Ltd 284, 652

Courtis, Henry 606

Cox, William 315, 347

Crankless Engines (Australia) Pty Ltd 481, 481i, 513

Crawford, Sir John 62

Creed reperforators and printers 535 - 536

CRO (cathode ray oscillator) 563 - 564

Cromer, R. N. 211, 211

Crompton, J. W. 942

Crompton, Samuel 269

Crooks Michel Peacock Stewart Pty Ltd 408, 408i

crossbar equipment 545 - 546, 546 - 547, 547 - 548, 552 - 553, development of multi frequency code 554, Geelong crossbar exchange 566i, MFC version installed in Toowoomba 554 - 555

Crowe, Robert 100

crumpet making 97 - 99

C.S.I.R.O. (C.S.I.R.) establishment of 30, 30 - 32, 115, 905 - 906, airport lighting 392 - 393, AMCRO 870 - 871, and packaging of foods 142 - 143, areas of rural research 30 - 32, atomic absorption spectroscope 648, Australian Computer Research Board 580, Badgery's Creek dairy breeding 50, breeding of Merinos 52 - 57, computerised management systems for agriculture 65 - 66, concrete research 326 - 327, dairy research 101 - 103, 136 - 137, Division of Food Research 115, Divisions working on mineral research 744, dyeing of wool 294 - 295, field drier for peanuts 128 - 129, first patent application 283, food canning 84 - 85, housing construction 333 - 336, improved wool sampling 291, 292, 292i, measured pressure diecasting 880, meat freezing 91 - 92, 92 - 93, member of Electrical Research Board 754 - 755, mineral processing techniques 709, 716, 744, mycotoxins 128 - 129, National Cattle Breeding Centre 49 - 50, National measurement standards 892, on stream analysis 719 - 720, pine kraft in fibre reinforced cement products 257, Post Second World War 121 - 122, produces sheep branding fluid 286, pulping of eucalypts 249, pulping of radiata pine 251, rail profile measuring device 720 - 721, report on industry requirements 907, representation on Radio Research Board 540 - 541, requirements for Computing 592 - 594, research in veterinary diseases 622, research on coal 754 - 757, Section of Food Preservation 116, 117, service to tropical countries 47, Sirofloc process 175 - 176, Sirotherm process 176 - 178, solar energy research 782, 783 - 785, 786 - 787, solar heat patents 778 - 779, the C.S.I.R.O. Atlas machine 298i, the C.S.I.R.O./Savio Twinsplicer 296d, VLSI programme 890 - 892, wool spinning requirement for two-fold yarn 295 - 297, work on fish processing 124 - 126, work on storage of fruit 92 - 93, 117

C.S.I.R.O. Aeronautical Research Laboratories 502 - 503, 587, 919

C.S.I.R.O. Central Experimental Workshops 755, 778

C.S.I.R.O. Dairy Research Section 101, 118, 126, 129, 137 - 140

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Aeronautics 907, 912

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Animal Health and Nutrition 283

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Applied Chemistry 217

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Building Research 206, 240 - 241, 241, 244

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Chemical and Wood Technology 206

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Chemical Engineering 140

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Electrotechnology (D.E.) 586

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Electrotechnology. Section of Mathematical Instruments 587, 592

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Entomology 221

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Food Preservation and Transport 118

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Food Research absorbs Section of Dairy Research 118 - 119, contribution 118 - 119, established 117, previous name 116, 117

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Forest Products established 206, 229 - 237, 240, 240 - 241, 242, 247 - 249, 317 - 318, 912

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Forest Research 206, 210, 212, 217

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Fossil Fuels 755

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Industrial Chemistry 283, Biochemistry Unit 284 - 285, 285, 287 - 288, Wool Processing Section 284

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Mathematical Statistics (D.M.S.) 587

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Mechanical Engineering 755, 778, 778 - 779

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Mineral Physics 218

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Pharmaceuticals 656

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Plant Industry 626

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Protein Chemistry 285, 293 - 294, 295 - 296

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Radio Physics 510, 586 - 587, 907, 914

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Textile Industry 285, 287 - 288, 288 - 289, 290, 292, 293 - 294, 295, 295 - 296

C.S.I.R.O. Division of Textile Physics 285, 291

C.S.I.R.O. Food Research Quarterly 121

C.S.I.R.O. Institute of Energy and Earth Resources 744

C.S.I.R.O. MeMaster Laboratories 642

C.S.I.R.O. Meat Research Laboratory 92, 124

C.S.I.R.O. Pulp and Paper Section 246 - 247

C.S.I.R.O. Section of Computing Research 592 - 593, 593

Cuckson Textiles Pty Ltd 302

Cuckson, Eric 302

Cullen, R. 590

Cullen, R. N. 796

Cuming Smith and Co. 237, 602, 603 - 604, 603i, 618 - 619, 640

Cuming, James 602, 603

Cumming, Ron W. 510, 927

Cummins, J. E. 232

Cumpston, Dr J. H. L. 627

Cunningham, T. M. 207

Curie, Marie 791

Custance, Fred 497

Custance, J. D. 21, 56, 603

cyclone areas, housing standards for 334 - 338

Czulak, J. 137


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