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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2023-01-17 human Ken McInnes updated 2024-06-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007155b.htm person Adams Robert AACR2 1828 6 May 1873 Place of Birth Stepney, Middlesex, England Place of Death St.Kilda, Victoria, Australia Civil engineer Robert Adams CE, was the Resident Engineer for the Victorian Railways from its establishment in 1856 until 1861, under the Engineer-in-Chief, George Christian Darbyrshire. Adams was responsible for laying out the lines and designing the major structures on the lines from Melbourne to Bendigo, and from Geelong to Ballarat. He later worked as the engineer for the contractors for the lines, Cornish and Bruce, and from 1867 until his death was the City Surveyor for the City of Melbourne. 1842 Career position - Engineer, East and West India Docks, London [working with his father John Samuel Adams] c. 1848 Career position - Engineer, Birmingham Junction Railway [under Samuel Dickinson Martin] 1853 1853 Life event - Immigrated to Australia 1856 1861 Career position - Resident Engineer, Victorian Railways [under George Darbyshire] 1857 1859 Career event - Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria 1859 1873 Career event - Member, Royal Society of Victoria 1861 c. 1866 Career position - Contractors Engineer, Cornish and Bruce 1864 1864 Lecture - Presented paper "Yarra Floods and their Remedy", to the Royal Society of Victoria 1866 1866 Career position - Councillor, Royal Society of Victoria 1867 1873 Career position - City Surveyor, City of Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia (1866 - 1867)

Section chairman and Juror for the Exhibition

 Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

Member of Council 1866

 Victorian Railways, Colony and State of Victoria (1883 - 1983)

Resident engineer 1856 - 1861

 'Adams, Robert', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Adams, Robert Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Engineering challenges in nineteenth century Victoria Harper, Brian C. S. Engineering challenges in nineteenth century Victoria Port Melbourne the author 2016 Book: Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century Cumming, D. A. Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century Melbourne University of Melbourne, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 1985 Conference Paper: The True History of the Design of the Melbourne, Mount Alexander, and Murray River Railway Harper, B. C. S. The True History of the Design of the Melbourne, Mount Alexander, and Murray River Railway Barton, Australian Capital Territory Engineers Australia 2003 Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 October 2003 Sheridan, Norman 72-78 Journal Article: The True History of the Design of the Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Harper, Brian The True History of the Design of the Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway 2005 Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering 3 1 83-90 Journal Article: Yarra Floods and their Remedy Adams, Robert Yarra Floods and their Remedy Melbourne Wilson & Mackinnon 1864 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 6 148-155