Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926
- Imprint
- CSIRO, Melbourne, 1966, 203 pp
- Url
- https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro
- Description
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- Abstract
From CSIRO Publishing:
March 16th, 1966, marked the jubilee of Commonwealth sponsored scientific research in Australia. In 1916 the Commonwealth Government set up an Advisory Council of Science and Industry. This was the culmination of an interest in scientific research which went back to the very beginning of federation and had been expressed by active attempts to bring science to the aid of agriculture.
This book is an account of the developments which led up to the formation of the Advisory Council by the Hughes Government in 1916. It carries the story on to 1926, when a later Prime Minister, Mr S. M. Bruce, introduced the Bill to found the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. In those days there were vivid contrasts in the views of scientists, politicians and men of affairs as to how science could most effectively influence the nation's future.
Appendices (1 - 15) pages 157-199 supply copies of key documents and legislation as well as useful tabulations of key research areas, staff and expenditure.
The book has good qualty portrait images of most the people linked to below.
- Source
- BXTA
Related entries
Corporate Bodies
- Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia (1916 - 1920)
Pages 43 - 105
- Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia (1920 - 1926)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Commonwealth of Australia (1926 - 1949)
People
- Cameron, Samuel Sherwen (1866 - 1933)
- Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856 - 1937)
- Gepp, Herbert William (1877 - 1954)
- Grimwade, Wilfrid Russell (1879 - 1955)
- Julius, George Alfred (1873 - 1946)
- Lightfoot, Gerald (1877 - 1966)
- Lyle, Thomas Ranken (1860 - 1944)
- Mann, Edward Alexander (1874 - 1951)
- Newbigin, William Johnstone (1874 - 1927)
- Osborne, William Alexander (1873 - 1967)
- Richardson, Arnold Edwin Victor (1883 - 1949)
- Rivett, Albert Cherbury David (David) (1885 - 1961)
- Watt, Robert Dickie (1881 - 1965)
Related Published resources
isRelated
- Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Resolutions passed by the Advisory Council, July 1917, together with, Report and recommendations on the organization and work of the proposed permanent Institute of Science and Industry (Melbourne: Government of Australia, 1917), 10 pp. Details