Person
Vogan, Harold James (1894 - 1981)
- Born
- 10 November 1894
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 22 November 1981
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
Harold Vogan was an academic in the Civil Engineering Department at the University Sydney from 1923 until his retirement, as Reader, in 1959. He was also a former student of the university having graduated with a BE.
Details
Chronology
- 1915 - 1918
- Career position - Staff member, University of Sydney [Assistant at the PNR Testing Lab, under Prof W. H. Warren. Design of reinforced concrete buildings for Sydney Municipal Council]
- 1916
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering, University of Sydney
- 1918
- Career position - Member of the Australian Munitions Workers' HQ in London [Technical Assistant, under Col Sir S. H. E. Barraclough, which controlled 6000 Australian workmen in England on War work]
- 1919 - 1922
- Career position - Assistant Engineer with the Port of London Authority [under C. R. S. Kirkpatrick]
- 1921 - 1923
- Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Travelling Fellow in Engineering
- 8 Mar 1921
- Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1923
- Career position - Assistant Engineer with the New South Wales Government Railways
- 1923 - 1946
- Career position - Lecturer, Civil Engineering, University of Sydney
- 1946 - 1959
- Career position - Reader, Civil Engineering, University of Sydney
Related entries
Archival resources
University of Sydney, Archives
- Harold James Vogan - Records, 1904 - 1968, P 106; University of Sydney, Archives. Details
Published resources
Edited Books
- Alexander, Joseph A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1950 (Melbourne: Colorgravure Publications, 1950). p.722. Details
Journal Articles
- Vogan, H. J., 'Some Notes on Proportioning Concrete', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (1931), 1 [Discussion pp.66, 94, 136, 170, 244.]. Details
- Vogan, H. J., 'Structural steel', Commonwealth Engineer, 24 (2) (1936), 43-50. Details
Resources
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 16464, 1921', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'Vogan, Harold James (18941110-19811122)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477224. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2023
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