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Biographical entry Broadhead, Charles Frederick (1882 - )
- Born
- 18 May 1882
Grimsby, England - Occupation
- Chemical engineer and Business executive
Summary
Charles Frederick Broadhead, of the Metropolitan Gas Company in Melbourne, succeeded in constructing a complete gasification plant around the 1930s. Such plants attempted to maximise the yield of gas by combining the action of vertical retorts with that of water gas plants which extracted the last vestiges of gas from coke.
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Born Grimsby, England, 18 May 1882. Educated University College, Nottingham. Engineer, Middleton Corporation Gas Department 1908-12; Metropolitan Gas Company Melbourne 1925-41; Managing Director, Colonial Gas Association Ltd from 1941.
Published resources
Online Resources
- National Library of Australia, 'Broadhead Charles Frederick', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477072. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003397. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 6 December 2006
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