Person
Bate, Ernest (1883 - 1974)
MC WhSch
- Born
- 12 October 1883
Widnes, Lancashire, England - Died
- 12 August 1974
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Electrical engineer
Summary
Ernest Bate was the Chief Electrical Engineer with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria 1936-1950.
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Chronology
- c. 1905
- Award - Whitworth Scholarship (WhSch)
- c. 1906
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Imperial College London
- c. 1907
- Career position - Student engineer, General Electric Co, Schenectady, New York
- 1908 - 1910
- Career position - Assistant engineer, Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft, Berlin
- c. 1910
- Life event - Migrated to New South Wales
- 1911 - 1921
- Career position - Electrical engineer, New South Wales Railways [Electrical superintendent, White Bay power house, Sydney]
- 1912
- Career event - Member, Electrical Association of Australia, New South Wales section
- 1916 - 1918
- Military service - Lieutenant, 13th Field Company Engineers, AIF; 4th Australian Divisional Engineers, British Army
- 1918
- Award - Military Cross (MC)
- 1919
- Life event - Returned to Australia, from England, via a visit to General Electric Co, New York
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1921 - 1936
- Career position - Electrical engineer, State Electricity Commission, Victoria
- 1930
- Award - Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers, Australia
- 1936 - 1946
- Career position - Chief engineer, Power Production Department, State Electricity Commission, Victoria
- 1947
- Career event - Elected President, Rotary Club of Melbourne
- 1947 - 1950
- Career position - Chief engineer, State Electricity Commission, Victoria
- 1949
- Career event - Overseas tour, Germany [To purchase two briquette plants for Morwell]
- 1950
- Life event - Retired
- 1950 - c. 1951
- Career position - Consulting engineer to State Electricity Commission, Victoria [Related to briquette plants]
- 1951
- Career event - Elected Governor, Rotary International's 28th District
- 1968
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Bate, E., 'Notes on the corrosion of condenser tubes', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of New South Wales (1914), 141-178. Details
- Bate, E., 'Vibration of Transmission Line Conductors', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (1930), 277- Discussion v.3, 1931, pp.169, 244. Details
- Bate, E., 'What are the Facts?', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 11 (1939), 141-. Details
- Bate, E.; Callow, J. R., 'The quantitative determination of the energy involved in the vibration of cylinders in an air stream', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (1934), 149-162. Details
- Bate, Ernest, 'Corrosion in condensers', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 2 (1923), 1-40, Discussion p.279, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.633547897955068. Details
- East, L. R. (editor), 'One hundred years of engineering in Victoria.', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 353-420. 'Electricity Supply of Victoria' pp.396-400. Details
- Grant, R.; Bate, E.; Myers, W. H., 'Influence of bacteria on corrosion in condensers', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 2 (1921), 41-68, Discussion p.279, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.633566530926326. Details
- Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twelfth Annual Report [1931]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1932), 178-179. 'Prizes awarded during the session: The Electrical Association Premium [1931], to E Bate, Associate Member, Melbourne Division', p.179. Details
Resources
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Bate E', B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=3056124. Details
- 'Bate, Ernest (1883-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476187. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Bate, Ernest', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001598p.htm. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098]; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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