Bibliography Home
There is a very large reservoir of information already published on Australian engineering and the various thematic engineering histories. Some of this information can be accessed via websites listed on the 'Links to Heritage Websites' webpage. A lot more information is available from books and technical publications.
Bibliographies
To assist users, where a book or article/paper relates to a specific State, that item is included in the State Bibliographies. Where the book or article/paper relates to two or more States, that item is included in the National Bibliography. Links to the National and State Bibliographies are below:
- National Bibliography
- Australian Capital Territory Bibliography
- New South Wales Bibliography
- Northern Territory Bibliography
- Queensland Bibliography
- South Australia Bibliography
- Tasmania Bibliography
- Victoria Bibliography
- Western Australia Bibliography
Abbreviations
Many publications and sources of information are referenced by abbreviations. A table of abbreviations used on this website is below:
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ADB | Australian Dictionary of Biography |
| B R | Biographical Register |
| BURK | Burke, David, Road through the Wilderness, the story of the transcontinental railway, the first great work of Federation, Kensington, NSW, NSW University Press, 1991 |
| CA PP | Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Papers |
| CE.T | Civil Engineering Transactions |
| CUM | Cumming, DA, Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the nineteenth century, Technology Report TR 85/10, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Melbourne, 1985 |
| C&M | Cumming, DA and Moxham, GC, They built South Australia, Adelaide, Gillingham, 1986 |
| FITCH | Fitch, RJ, Making Tracks, 46 years in Australian Railways, Kenthurst NSW, Kangaroo Press, 1989 |
| GG | Government Gazette |
| G SM | Gibb and Smith, A Biographical Register 1788 1938, Canberra, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987 |
| JIEA | Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia |
| JNA | Johns Notable Australians, 1906 |
| MENN | Mennel, P, The Dictionary of Australian Biography, London, Hutchinson, 1892 |
| OBERG | Oberg, L, Locomotives of Australia, Sydney, JW, 1972 (reprinted 1982) |
| PAIMM | Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy |
| PICE | Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London |
| PSL | Public Service List |
| SERLE | Serle, P, "Dictionary of Australian Biography", Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1949 |
| TAIME | Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers |
| TIEA | Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia |
| WAHS | Journal and Proceedings, Western Australian Historical Society, 1929 |
