Person

Bobardt, Edward Otto (Otto) (c. 1833 - 1871)

Born
c. 1833
Halle, Prussia
Died
24 February 1871
Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Instrument maker, Inventor and Mechanical engineer

Summary

Otto Bobardt was a Melbourne mechanical engineer who supplied tin working equipment to meat preservers in Victoria and other colonies around the 1860s.

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Chronology

1857
Life event - Arrived in Melbourne
1859
Life event - Married Agnes Munro, in Victoria
1861
Life event - Naturalised as a Victorian citizen
1864
Patent - An invention for measuring distances by means of a vehicle-wheel, and to be called a 'Distance Meter' [758/1864]
1868
Patent - An invention to be called O. Babardt's Apparatus for inhalng Atomized Fluids [1188/1868]
1868
Patent - An invention called O. Babardt's Patent Tobacco Cutter [1099/1868]
1871
Buried - Melbourne General Cemetery

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See also

Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 7 January 2026

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