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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-08-24 human Ken McInnes updated 2023-02-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007077b.htm person McCarty Francis Alexander AACR2 20 October 1875 27 September 1938 Place of Birth Blossburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America Place of Death Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Electrical engineer Francis McCarty AMIEAust was an electrical engineer and pioneer in the construction of electrical lighting and tramway undertakings across Australia between 1900 and the late 1920s. In 1900 he was recruited from America by Noyes Brothers, the Australian agents for Westinghouse Engineering Co., to supervise Noyes Bros electrical engineering projects. From 1908 he was engaged in significant engineering contracting work in Melbourne, Tasmania, Geelong and Adelaide. From 1913, in partnership with Henry Arthur Underwood AMIEAust, he focused on consulting work related to electric tramways and electrical engineering work in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

Associated Engineering Works:
* 1901 Electric lighting, Adelaide, South Australia;
* 1903 Electric power, equipment and lighting, Ipswich Railway workshops, Queensland;
* 1904-05 Electric tramways and lighting, Fremantle, Western Australia;
* 1908 Electric tramway, Prahran-Malvern Tramway Trust;
* 1910 Schematic design, Great Lakes hydro-power scheme, Complex Ores Co., Tasmania;
* 1911 Electric tramway, Geelong, Victoria;
* 1912 Electric tramway extension, Prahran-Malvern Tramway Trust;
* 1912-14 Electric Tramway extensions, Adelaide, South Australia;
* 1914-18 Electric tramway, Hawthorn Tramway Trust;
* 1919 Electric tramway, Fitzroy, Northcote and Preston Tramway Trust.

c. 1893 c. 1893 Career position - Served his time with Westinghouse Engineering Co. America 1894 1894 Career position - Engineer, electrification of Monroe-Toledo electric railway [Part of Detroit, Michigan to Toledo, Ohio] 1895 1895 Career position - Engineer, hydro-electricity power scheme for Boisie basin mines, Idaho c. 1898 c. 1900 Career position - Engineer, Petty Harbour Hydro-Electric Generating Station, St. John's Street Railway Company Newfoundland, Canada [Generating electricity for tramways and lighting for City of St.John's] 1900 1900 Life event - Migrated to Australia, from Pittsburgh, USA 1900 1905 Career position - Supervising electrical engineer, Noyes Brothers 1901 1901 Career position - Supervising electrical engineer, Noyes Brothers [Electric Lighting Plant, Adelaide, working with Francis Edwin Bradford, and J.M.Jolly] 1901 1903 Career position - Supervising engineer, Noyes Brothers [Electrical power, equipment and lighting, Ipswich Railway workshops, working with Francis Edwin Bradford.] 1902 1902 Talk - Talk on how the Ipswich Railway workshops plant worked, to Ipswich Technical School 1904 1904 Lecture - Presented paper "Electrically driven machine tools", to Electrical Association of New South Wales 1904 1905 Career position - Engineer in charge of construction / Chief engineer, Noyes Brothers [Fremantle Tramways and Electric Lighting] 1905 1905 Life event - Married Annie Smith, in Cottesloe, Western Australia 1905 1906 Career event - Visit to England and America 1908 1908 Career event - First use of Thermit welded rail joints in Victoria. Prahran-Malvern Electric Tramway 1908 1908 Career event - Member, Victorian Institute of Electrical Engineers 1908 1909 Career position - Contractor, McCarty and W. Sim & Co, for Prahran-Malvern Electric Tramway [Design by Noyes Bros: design engineer, Joseph Henry Draper Brearley. Trust general manager and supervising engineer, H S Dix CE] 1910 1910 Career position - Consulting engineer, Valuation of Perth Tramways system, Perth City Council 1910 1910 Career position - Consulting engineer, Schematic design, Great Lakes hydro-power scheme, Complex Ores Co., Tasmania 1911 1911 Career position - Consulting engineer, Geelong Tramway Trust 1911 1911 Career position - Contractor, to complete Dandenong road tramway extension, Prahran and Malvern Tramway Trust, Melbourne 1911 1911 Life event - Naturalisation, Melbourne [NAA: A1, 1915/15779] 1911 1912 Career position - Contractor, Hill Street electric tramway extension, Adelaide 1911 1912 Military service - Second Lieutenant, Australian Engineers' Corp, South Australia 1912 1912 Career position - Contractor, Goodwood electric tramway, Adelaide 1913 1918 Career event - Formed consulting engineering partnership "McCarty and Underwood" with Henry Arthur Underwood AMIEAust 1914 1914 Career event - Vice-President, Victorian Institute of Electrical Engineers 1914 1914 Career event - Talk "Electric tramway construction", Victorian Section, Electrical Association of Australia 1914 1914 Career position - Consulting engineer, Beaumaris Tramway Company [To assess the safety of the decaying conditions of the tramway] 1914 1918 Career position - Consulting engineer and manager, Hawthorn Tramway Trust, Melbourne 1916 1916 Career event - President, Victorian Section, Electrical Association of Australia 1916 1916 Career event - Councillor, Federal Council, Electrical Association of Australia 1917 1917 Career position - Consulting engineer, Footscray Tramway Trust 1917 1917 Patent - Designed and patented (with Underwood) built-up tramway rails rolled in Australia [to overcome supply shortages during the First World War] 1917 1917 Career event - Talk "A special tramway rail", Electrical Association of Autralia, Victorian Section 1917 1917 Career position - Consulting engineer, Proposed Box Hill Tramway 1919 1919 Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1919 1919 Career position - Consulting engineer, Fitzroy, Northcote and Preston Tramways Trust 1921 1921 Career position - Consulting engineer, St.Mary's District water supply scheme, New South Wales 1921 1921 Career position - Consulting engineer, Proposed Toowoomba Electric Tramways Scheme, Queensland 1924 1924 Career position - Consulting engineer, Penrith water supply, New South Wales 1929 1929 Career position - Consulting engineer, Emergency bridge work repairs, following floods, Launceston, Tasmania 1938 1938 Buried - Cremated, Fawkner Memorial Park, Victoria Electrical Association of Australia (1915 - 1919)

Councillor, Federal Council, 1916.

 Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian section (1915 - 1919)

President 1916.

 'McCarty, Francis Alexander', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McCarty, Francis Alexander Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Report for the city of Toowoomba : proposed electric tramway and general power requirements McCarty, F.A. Report for the city of Toowoomba : proposed electric tramway and general power requirements 1920 Journal Article: A special tramway rail McCarty, F.A. A special tramway rail 1916-17 Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian Section III 30-35 Journal Article: Presidential address. Electrical Association of Australia. Victorian Section McCarty, F.A. Presidential address. Electrical Association of Australia. Victorian Section 1915-16 Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian Section II 1-11 Journal Article: Electric tramway construction McCarty, F.A. Electric tramway construction 1914-15 Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, Victorian Section I 107-125