NSW Engineering Timeline: Manufacturing and Heavy Industry
| Pre 1788 | 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 | |
| HEAVY INDUSTRY, MANUFACTURING | First brickworks 1788. First operational Windmill 1797. |
Whaling 1805. First steam grain mill 1815. |
Six steam engines operating in colony (mainly milling) 1831. First Australian made steam engine 1836. |
AGL Gas Works 1841. Sydney Foundry & Engineering Works (P.N. Russell) 1842. Sugar refinery 1842. First cannery in Australia 1846 Waterview Bay Dry Dock Company (later Mort's Dock & Engineering Company) opened 1855. |
First commercial refrigeration 1861. | Some locomotive manufacture. BHP starts mining at Broken Hill 1885. Australian Roller Flour Mills 1888. Portland cement production Portland 1890. Widespread mechanised sheep shearing, late 1880s. Clyde Engineering 1898. | |
| 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 | |
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HEAVY INDUSTRY, MANUFACTURING |
Rotary cement kilns installed Portland 1902. Sandford Ironworks 1906. BHP Iron & Steel works 1915. Lithgow Small Arms Factory 1912. Application of flotation process Broken Hill. Expansion of Great Cobar Copper Mine 1900-1910. Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) established 1909. State Abattoir 1913. State Brickworks 1910. |
Clyde Oil Refinery 1925. Ford Assembly Plant Homebush opened 1936. Australian Glass Manufacturers (AGM) factory Waterloo 1915. Australian Iron & Steel (AI&S) Port Kembla 1928. Expansion of steel-based products (galvanised iron, wire, nails ropes, etc.). |
Port Kembla Steelworks Flat Products Development starts 1955. British Motor Corporation (BMC) plant opened 1950 (1954?). |
Modernisation of Port Kembla Steelworks. | ResMed Factory 1989. | |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 |
