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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-07-09 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-04-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007766b.htm person Bright Harold Edward AACR2 24 November 1899 1 June 1958 Place of Birth Auckland, New Zealand Place of Death late of Crunulla, New South Wales, Australia Civil engineer Harold Bright, AMIEAust, was associated with the engineering work for the hydro-electric scheme on the Waikato River in New Zealand in 1929, when he was working for Armstrong Witworth and Company. In particular, the construction of a diversion tunnel to dewater the damsite during construction of the dam. 1929 1929 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia c. 1929 c. 1930 Career position - Engineer, Armstrong Witworth and Company, New Zealand 1932 1932 Award - Warren Memorial Prize 1932, Institution of Engineers Australia c. 1933 c. 1934 Career position - Shire engineer, Coolamon, New South Wales 1937 1937 Career position - Engineer, Messrs A. J. Hill, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 1941 1944 Military service - Second World War. Captain, RAE W. H. Warren Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1926 - )

Awarded Warren Memorial Prize 1932, for the paper "The dewatering of a damsite in a river bed confined between the precipitous cliffs of a narrow gorge ...", vol.1, no.5, May 1929, p.171-183. [1932 Award shared with H. Hughes, for the paper "Spencer Street Bridge, II - Concrete work", Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, vol.1, no.6, Jun 1929, pp.221-226.]

 'Bright, Harold Edward', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bright, Harold Edward Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The dewatering of a damsite - in a river bed confined between the precipitous cliffs of a narrow gorge and with a normal flow of 8000 cusecs, and average velocity 10 feet per second. Bright, Harold Edward The dewatering of a damsite - in a river bed confined between the precipitous cliffs of a narrow gorge and with a normal flow of 8000 cusecs, and average velocity 10 feet per second. 1929 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 1 5 171-183 Resource: B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947 CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947 National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch