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		<title>The Garratt Locomotive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herbert Garratt was born in London in 1864. He served an apprenticeship at the Locomotive Works of the North London Railway. After working for several years as an engineer and locomotive superintendent in Argentina, Cuba, West Africa and Peru, he returned to London and in July 1907 applied for a patent on the locomotive design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cockatoo Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1847 the Commanding Royal Engineer Lieutenant Colonel James Gordon was instructed to commence work on a graving dock, which was designed by the Sydney civil engineer, Captain Gother Mann. Mann was then stationed on the island to supervise construction using convict labour. The dock, called Fitzroy Dock, was constructed between 1851 and 1857. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas and the Lockheed Constellation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 25 September 1946, Qantas Empire Airways (QEA) signed the contract to purchase four Lockheed Constellation aircraft for the Kangaroo Route between Britain and Australia flown in conjunction with BOAC. BOAC, which at that time held half the shares in QEA, had argued long and hard for British aircraft being used on the route, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#039;s First Telephones</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Graham Bell famously demonstrated his invention by communicating between two rooms of a Philadelphia boarding house in 1876, and later that year showed it at Philadelphia&#8217;s Centennial Exhibition. Bell&#8217;s patent and his publication of technical details in 1877 excited scientists and experimenters around the world, including Australia. The first commercial telephone in Australia was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Meat Trade</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mechanical ice-making machine that James Harrison put into operation at Rocky Point near Geelong, Victoria, was probably the first in the world. Harrison, a Scottish journalist with some scientific knowledge, was editor and manager of the Geelong Advertiser. He first patented the refrigeration process in 1856 and made ice commercially in Geelong and Melbourne. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Harbour Bridge Competition, 1902</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1900 a newly elected New South Wales government, with Lyne as Premier and O&#8217;Sullivan as Minister for Public Works, organised a world-wide competition for a bridge over Sydney Harbour. The 24 entries were put on public display after the competition closed on 1 September that year. The board of judges found all the tenders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolseley&#8217;s Sheep Shearing Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frederick York Wolseley arrived in Melbourne in 1854 and worked on his brother-in law&#8217;s sheep station for five years before himself acquiring an interest in several sheep stations. He started development of a shearing machine in 1868. R.P. Park joined him in the venture in 1874, and in 1885 Wolseley arranged public demonstrations and set [...]]]></description>
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