Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- The plastic banknote: from concept to reality
- Imprint
- CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic., 2014, 240 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780643094277
- Url
- https://www.publishing.csiro.au/book/6490/
- Subject
- Chronological Classification 1901- Natural Sciences Physical Sciences
- Format
- Contains
- Image
- Description
This title is no longer available in print, but can still be purchased as an eBook [ePDF or ePUB].
- Abstract
From the blurb:
Describes the story of the world's first plastic banknote which we all use and take for granted.
'Have you got any ideas on how to make a better banknote?'
In the late 1960s, the detection of counterfeit banknotes and the rise of new photographic and copying technologies prompted the Reserve Bank of Australia to explore options for increasing the security of currency. A top-secret research project, undertaken by CSIRO and the Bank, resulted in the development of the world's first successful polymer banknotes. This technology is now used in over 30 countries.This book describes the story of the Currency Notes Research and Development project from its inception in 1968 through to the release of the $10 Australian bicentennial plastic banknote in 1988. It exemplifies a market-driven project which resulted in advances in science, technology and approaches to commercialisation, and a fundamental change in banknote security.
- Source
- Cohn 2015
Related entries
Corporate Bodies
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )
- CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1988 - 1997)
- Sirotech Limited - CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1984 - 1993)
- Weapons Research Establishment, Commonwealth of Australia (1955 - 1978)
People
- Boardman, Norman Keith (Keith) (1926 - )
- Bowen, Edward George (1911 - 1991)
- Burgmann, Victor Dudley (1916 - 1991)
- Hamann, Sefton Davidson (1921 - 2009)
- Hawthorne, David Geoffrey (Geoff) (1935 - 2016)
- Hodgkin, Jonathon Howard (1938 - )
- McCracken, Kenneth Gordon (1933 - )
- Price, James Robert (Jerry) (1912 - 1999)
- Quint, Graham (1932 - 2007)
- Sasse, Wolfgang Hermann Fritz (1928 - )
- Solomon, David Henry (1929 - )
- Spurling, Thomas Harley (Tom) (1940 - )
- Walsh, Alan (1916 - 1998)
- Whitton, William Ivo (Bill) (1924 - 2019)
- Wild, John Paul (Paul) (1923 - 2008)
- Worner, Hill Wesley (1917 - 2002)
See also
Related Archival resources
References
- CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers, Currency Note Research and Development Project; National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office. Details
Related Published resources
isReferencedBy
- Spurling, Tom, 'Plastic banknote [Chapter 39]' in A history of intellectual property in 50 objects, Den Kamp, Claudy Op; Hunter, Dan, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 320-327, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108325806. Details
Related
- Buchanan, Roderick; Gavan McCarthy; Oscar Manhal, Currency Note Research and Development Project CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/plbn/plbn.htm. Details