P000143
revised
AU-VU:EOAS
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
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English
AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Person
created
1993-10-20
human
McCarthy, G.J.
updated
2026-01-07
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000143b.htm
person
Savage
Robert
AACR2
24 March 1818
12 July 1888
Place of Birth
Cork, Ireland
Place of Death
South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Agricultural writer
Inventor
Robert Savage settled in the Nangeela valley, western Victoria in 1839 and helped invent a reaping machine and stone-breaking machinery. He was the agricultural writer for the "Argus" from the late 1850s and was a member of the Land Tenure Reform League.
Wikidata
Savage, Robert (1818-1888)
Trove
'Savage, Robert', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Savage, Robert
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Book Section: Savage, Robert (1818-1888), agricultural writer and inventor
O'Neill, Sally
Savage, Robert (1818-1888), agricultural writer and inventor
Melbourne
Melbourne University Press
1976
Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z
Bede Nairn
88-89
Book: Australian inventions and innovations
Ingpen, Robert
Australian inventions and innovations
Rigby Publishers Limited
1982
Book: Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history
McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew
Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history
Melbourne, Vic.
Victoria Press
1994
Resource: Science and the making of Victoria
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
Science and the making of Victoria
2001
Robert Savage - Records
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
Robert Savage - Records
ML MSS 1203
1833 - 1914
Savage family papers 1833-1914 including correspondence of R. Savage 1859-84, personal documents and papers relating to his inventions 1873 [1 box, ML MSS 1203].
1 box