Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Duck Reach - the First Significant Hydro-electric Power Development in Australasia
- In
- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, Hobart, Tasmania, 1992, pp. 35-42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858255677
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.424272162762379
- Abstract
The Duck Reach development (1895-1955) began an era of hydro-electric power in Tasmania which has continued for nearly 100 years. Built on the South Esk River, 2 miles from Launceston it consisted of a diversion weir, tunnel, penstock and power station situated in a steep dolerite gorge. The capacity of the station was increased (1899/1906/1921) and operated until 5th December, 1955, when the Trevallyn Power Development (80.000kW) was completed. The latter used the full head of the gorge to the upper tidal reach of the Tamar River estuary and in so doing bypassed the old 2000kW station. The paper examines Duck Reach's place in the history of hydro-electric engineering to get her with details of early such developments in the United Kingdom, United States of America and Australasia. Some aspects of the historical technology of electricity generation and transmission is briefly described.
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- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers (Hobart, Tasmania: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, 1992), 140 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858255677. Details