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James Hynds Gillies
James Hyndes Gillies (11 November 1861 – 26 September 1942) was the pioneer of hydro-electricity in Tasmania, Australia and a metallurgist who patented a method for the electrolytic extraction of zinc. He was granted approval in 1909 by the Tasmanian parliament to construct and operate the Great Lake Scheme (which became known as Waddamana Power Station) in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, which served the state until 1960. Early life Gillies parents had migrated from the Isle of Skye and had a traditional Presbyterian upbringing on a farm in Maitland, NSW. At 24, Gillies married Annie Griffiths and after a number of years working in real estate in Eastern Sydney, qualified as a metallurgist from the NSW School of Mines and moved to regional NSW with Annie and their four children. It was during his career as a metallurgist that Gillies invented an electrolytic process for the treatment of complex zinciferous ores and in 1904-7, took out a series of patents in America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hyndes Gillies
James Hyndes Gillies (11 November 1861 – 26 September 1942) was the pioneer of hydro-electricity in Tasmania, Australia and a metallurgist who patented a method for the electrolytic extraction of zinc. He was granted approval in 1909 by the Tasmanian parliament to construct and operate the Great Lake Scheme (which became known as Waddamana Power Station) in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, which served the state until 1960. Early life Gillies parents had migrated from the Isle of Skye and had a traditional Presbyterian upbringing on a farm in Maitland, NSW. At 24, Gillies married Annie Griffiths and after a number of years working in real estate in Eastern Sydney, qualified as a metallurgist from the NSW School of Mines and moved to regional NSW with Annie and their four children. It was during his career as a metallurgist that Gillies invented an electrolytic process for the treatment of complex zinciferous ores and in 1904-7, took out a series of patents in America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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People From Tasmania
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Hydroelectricity In Tasmania
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Australian Metallurgists
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People From Maitland, New South Wales
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Scottish Emigrants To Colonial Australia
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Australian Presbyterians
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1942 Deaths
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1861 Births
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first steam-powered carousel is recorded, in Bolton, England. * January 2 – Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies, and is succeeded by Wilhelm I. * January 3 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the Union. * January 9 – American Civil War: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union. * January 10 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union. * January 11 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the Union. * January 12 – American Civil War: Major Robert Anderson sends dispatches to Washington. * January 19 – American Civil War: Georgia secedes from the Union. * January 21 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. * January 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ogilvie
Albert George Ogilvie (10 March 1890 – 10 June 1939) was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his death on 10 June 1939. Ogilvie was the elder son of James Ogilvie. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Victoria, St Virgils College Hobart, and the University of Tasmania, where he graduated LL.B. in 1914. He was admitted to the bar in the same year. In 1919 he was elected to the House of Assembly for Division of Franklin, and retained the seat at each succeeding election. In August 1921 Ogilvie successfully defended George William King, who had been accused of the murder of Chrissie Venn. In October 1923 he joined the Lyons cabinet as attorney-general and minister for education, to which was added mines and forestry in March 1924. In this year he was made a King's Counsel (KC) and was then the youngest to hold that position in Australia. In 1927 he resigned from the Lyons government and sat as a private member, but wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Parry
Evan Parry (30 November 1865 – 17 December 1938) was a Welsh electrical engineer noted for his pioneering work in New Zealand. History He was born in Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of William Parry, a slate quarry manager, and his wife Eliza, née Williams. He was educated at Bangor and studied for his BSc at Glasgow University. He secured an engineering position at the Deptford power station and subsequently for the British Thomson-Houston company. In 1897 he began work for the American-born Horace Field Parshall, an engineer with a lucrative business electrifying tramways in Dublin, Glasgow, Bristol and elsewhere. In 1911 he was appointed the first electrical engineer for New Zealand's Public Works Department and was immediately involved in the construction and installation of the Lake Coleridge Lake Coleridge ( mi, Whakamatau) is located in inland Canterbury, in New Zealand's South Island. Located to the northwest of Methven, it has a surface area of . Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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