Person
Cullen, Edward Alexander Ernest (1861 - 1950)
ISO
- Born
- 21 December 1861
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 13 April 1950
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Engineer
Summary
Edward Cullen worked as a surveyor and engineer for the Queensland Government for over 40 years. Many of his surveys were to areas never charted before and included the first ever survey of the Norman River (1884) and the discovery of Port Musgrave (1887). When working as chief engineer for the Department of Harbours and Rivers, he oversaw the expansion of the Brisbane River to a fourteen-mile useable shipping channel. His 1922 paper Improvement of the Brisbane River won the highly respected Telford Premium Award from Institution of Civil Engineers of UK. The same Institute which awarded Cullen full membership in 1902. In 1932 he was appointed a Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO).
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Chronology
- 1875 - c. 1880
- Career position - Civil Assistant to the Royal Navy Survey of the Queensland Coast
- c. 1880 - 1883
- Career position - Assistant to the Government Hydraulic Engineer
- 1884
- Career position - Norman River survey
- 1884 - 1893
- Career position - Nautical Surveyor for the Department of Harbours and Rivers
- 1887
- Career position - Port Musgrave survey
- 1890 - 1891
- Career position - Moreton Bay survey
- 1893 - c. 1900
- Career position - Principal Engineer at Department of Marine in Queensland
- 5 Feb 1895
- Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1900
- Career position - Harbours and water power fact-finding trip to Europe and USA
- c. 1901 - 1931
- Career position - Chief Engineer at the Department of Harbours and Rivers in Queensland
- 16 Dec 1902
- Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1922
- Award - Telford Premium, Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- December 1931
- Life event - Retired
- 1932
- Award - Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)
Published resources
Book Sections
- McKay, Gordon R., 'Cullen, Edward Alexander Ernest (1861-1950)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 165-166. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080184b.htm. Details
Edited Books
- Whitmore, R. L. ed., Eminent Queensland Engineers [volume 1] (Brisbane, Queensland: The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Queensland Division, 1984), 75 pp. https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2017-01/eqe_vol_i.compressed.pdf. pp.26-27 'A.E. Cullen ISO MInstCE'. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24044926. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 9090, 1892', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'Cullen, Edward Alexander Ernest (1861-1950)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470086. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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