The recent post on architectural delights reminded me that during the Beaconsfield mining disaster I googled Beaconsfield and turned up some pictures of the Batman Bridge nearby. That led to some more pictures of Tasmanian bridges and one of them led to some other bridges in Victoria and NSW, and that link led this amazing on-line resource, almost 1000 pages of the history of technology in Australia from 1788.
The table of contents tells it all, there is something for everyone, from rural research and development, to food technology, textiles, transport, mining, water resources and the defence industries.
Times are tough when you have to comment on your own post but an addition to the text might not be noticed at this stage.
What about the story that the CSIRO had to decide circa 1950 whether to put serious resources into rainmaking or computers and they went for rainmaking?
The index to the big book does not have rainmaking and I don’t have time to read a lot of text. Anyone out there a full bottle on that bit of history?