Author

Publication

ISBN

Abbott, J H M

The Newcastle Packets and the Hunter Valley (The Currawong Publishing Co.) 1943. The history of the shipping trade to Newcastle and exploration of the Hunter Valley.

Adam-Smith, P

When We Rode the Rails. (Cornstalk Publishing) 1983. A social history of railways in Australia.

0 86770 058 0 

Aird, W V

The Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage of Sydney. (Water Board) 1961. History of Sydney's water supply and sewerage to 1960.

Alder, K

Australia's Uranium Opportunities - How her scientists and engineers tried to bring her into the nuclear age but were stymied by politics (Pauline M. Alder) 1996

ANCOLD

Dams in Australia - 1972 (Australian National Committee on Large Dams) 1972. Booklet for the 40th Executive Meeting and Study Tour of International Committee On Large Dams - describes 34 dams.

ANCOLD

Dam Technology in Australia - 1850-1999 (Australian National Committee on Large Dams) 2000. Edited B. Cole

0 957830 8 07

Anderson, Gordon F

Fifty Years of Electricity Supply: The Story of Sydney's Electricity Supply. (The Sydney County Council) 1955. A history of power generation and supply in Sydney.

Anderson, M and Cochrane, P

Julius, Poole & Gibson - The First Eighty Years (JP & G) 1989.  History of a consulting engineering organisation.

0 7316 5393 9

Aplin, G & Storey, J

Waterfront Sydney 1860-1920 (Allen & Unwin) 1984. Photographs and history.

1 86373 098 2

Armstrong, J (ed)

Shaping the Hunter (Newcastle Division, IE Aust) 1983. Engineering heritage of the, Newcastle area.

0 85515 025 5   

Arneil, S F

Firm Foundation. (Gutteridge, Haskins & Davey) 1988. History of consulting engineers Gutteridge, Haskins and Davey.

0 7316 2096 8

Arup, O and Zunz, J

Sydney Opera House (Sydney Opera House Trust - Reprint Series No. 1) A paper on the design and construction of the Opera House.

AATSE

Technology in Australia 1788-1988 (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering)

Australian National University

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Balint, E,  Howells, T, and Smyth, V

Warehouses and Woolstores of Victorian Sydney. (Oxford 1982). Description of structure of warehouses and of hoisting gear.

0 19 554385 8

Baker, R T

Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia (Technological Museum, Sydney) 1915

Baume, M

The Sydney Opera House Affair (Nelson) 1967 The first ten years of the project.

Bayley, William A

The Great Zig Zag Railway at Lithgow. (Australian Publications, Bulli) 1977. Consists almost entirely of contemporary accounts of the building and operation of the railway.                                      

0 90959 718 9

Bayley, William A

Tunnels on Australian Railways. (Australian, Publications, Bulli) 1972. Describes the building and working of all historic New South Wales tunnels.  

0 90959 701 1

Bayley, William A

Viaducts on Australian Railways. (Austrail Publications, Bulli, n.d). Describes the building of all historic New South Wales viaducts.

0 90959 721 9

Bayley, William A

The Great Zig Zag Railway. (Austrail Publications) 1977.                

0 90959 718 9

Beasley, Margo

The Sweat of Their Brows. (Sydney Water Board) 1988. 100 Years of the Water Board.

0 73052 427 2  

Beasley, Margo

Sydney Town Hall – A Social History (City of Sydney & Hale & Iremonger) 1998

0 86806 638 9

Belbin, P and Burke, D

Full Steam Across the Mountains. (Methuen Australia Pty. Ltd., North Ryde) 1981. The major work on the railway over the Blue Mountains, celebrating John Whitton's achievement.

0 454 00228 5

Birmingham, J, Jack, I and Jeans D

Australian Pioneer Technology: Sites and Relics. (Heinemann, Melbourne 1979). Industrial and Agricultural Technology.                

0 85859 185 5

Birmingham J, Jack I and Jeans D

Australian Pioneer Technology: Rural Industry (Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd, Richmond, Vic) 1983. Illustrated guide to flourmilling, brickmaking, building industry, transport and communications.

Bradfield, J J C

Sydney Harbour Bridge: Report on Tenders (NSW Government Printer) 1924

Bradfield, K N E

Bill Bradfield at Oxford 1935-1938; Recollections of a graduate from the Sydney University Engineering School at New College in the 1930s ((Sydney University Engineering Alumni, Faculty of Engineering) 1999

1 86487 029 X

Brady, I

New South Wales Railways – The First Twenty-Five Years.

(Australian Railway Historical Society) 1980. Early period of state system.

0 90965 010 1   

Bridges, P

Foundations of Identity – Building Early Sydney 1788-1822 (Hale & Iremonger) 1995

086806 566 8

Bridges, P &

McDonald, D

James Barnet – Colonial Architect. (Hale & Iremonger) 1988. One of the PWD NSW history series.

0 86806 293 6

Broadbent, J & Hughes, J 

Francis Greenway, Architect. (Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales) 1997.

0 949753 76 9

Broomham, R G

First light: 150 years of Gas. (Hale & Iremonger) 1987. History of Australian Gas Light Company.          

0 86806 286 3

Broomham, R G

Steady Revolutions. (Univ. of NSW P.) 1991. Australian Institute of Marine & Power Engineers 1881-1990. 

0 86840 321 5

Broomham, Rosemary

Vital Connections – A history of NSW roads from 1788. (Hale & Iremonger) 2001.

0 86806 703 2

Brown, Clare

Driven by Ideas: The Story of Arthur Bishop (EA Books 2002)

Brown, E C (ed)

Suspension Bridge 100^th Anniversary Celebrations (Rotary Club of Northbridge) 199? Programme and historical booklet on Northbridge Suspension Bridge (Cammeray Bridge).

Brown, S & K

Parramatta – A Town Caught in Time, 1870. (Hale & Iremonger) 1995. Photographs from the J K S Houison Collection. Society of Australian Genealogists.

0 86806382 X

Browne, J W

Bent Backs – An illustrated social and technological history of the Western Coal Fields. Industrial Printing Co. Lithgow NSW. 1989

Burke, David

Juggernaut! A story of Sydney in the days of the steam trams. 1997. Kangaroo Press

0 86417 902 2

Cadbury, Deborah

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. (Fourth Estate) 2003.

0 00 717350 4

Carroll, B

The Engineers – 200 Years at Work for Australia. (EA Books) 1988. Bicentennial review by The Institution of Engineers, Australia.

0 85825 440 9  

Cash, F

Parables of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (S D Townsend) 1930.   A well-informed North Sydney cleric’s view (narrative and photos) of the major construction taking place on his own doorstep.

Cassady, Stephen

Spanning the Gate – The Golden Gate Bridge (Squarebooks) 1986

O 916290 36 0

Chrimes, M

Civil Engineering 1839-1889 – A Photographic History (Allan Sutton/Thomas Telford) 1991. Chapter 9: Opening up Australia

Clark, L A

North of the Harbour: A Brief History of Transport to and on the North Shore. (Newey & Beath Printers Pty Ltd, Broadmeadow) 1976. Covers vehicular and passenger ferries, cable and electric trams, trains and stations.

0 90965 005 5   

Clarke, M N

The Heritage in people – Oral History in Engineering. Proceedings First International and Eighth Australian Engineering Heritage Conference, Newcastle 1996.

0 85825 661 4

Clarke, M N

The Historic Engineering Plaques of Australia

Clarke, M N and Cottee, D

Sydney’s Engineering Heritage – Walks in the City. (Sydney Division, IE Aust) 1994. A walking guide to the CBD and adjacent areas.

0 85815 013

Clarke, M N

Sydney’s Engineering Heritage and Other Sites. (Sydney Division, IE Aust) 1999. A walking guide to the CBD and adjacent areas.

0 85825 716 5

Clarke, M N and Coltheart, L

A Heritage of Waste. Proceedings Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Perth 1990.

0 909421 23 4

Clarke, M S and J

The Islands of Sydney Harbour (Kangaroo Press) 2000

0 7318 1063 5

Cole, B (Ed)

Dam Technology in Australia - 1850-1999 (Australian National Committee on Large Dams) 2000.

0 957830 8 07

Cole, B

Australia’s 500 Large Dams – Conserving water on a dry continent (Australian National Committee on Large Dams) 2003.

0 9578308 1 5

Coltheart, L

A Guide to the History of The Public Works Department, NSW (PW Heritage Group, PWD NSW) 1991. Comprehensive reference to persons and projects.

Between Wind & Water - A history of the ports and coastal waterways of NSW (Hale & Iremonger) 1997. One of the PWD NSW' history series.

0 86806 598 6

Coltheart, L

Significant Sites - History and Public Works in NSW (Hale & Iremonger) 1989. One of the PWD NSW' history series.

0 86806 364 9

Coltheart, L

S.170 Historical Context Report – Department of Public works and Services NSW (c. 1998)

Coltheart, L and Fraser D

Landmarks in Public Works (Hale & Iremonger) 1987. Projects of the Department of Public Works NSW I884-1914. One of the PWD NSW' history series.

0 86806 296 0

Connah, G

Of the Hut I Builded - The Archaeology of Australia's History. (Cambridge University Press, 1988). The Techniques of Historical and Industrial Archaeology.

0 521 34567 7 

Corbett, A H

The History of the Institution of Engineers Australia (Angus and Robertson, 1973). The First Fifty Years of The Institution.           

0 205 12516 3

Cowan, H J

A Contradiction in Terms (Dept of Architectural and Design Science, University of Sydney/Hermitage Press) 1993. The autobiography of an engineer/academic.

0 646 09229 4  

Cowan, H J

Hydraulic Power as a Public Service from 1879 to 1975. Paper to IEAust. 1996. About the Melbourne and Sydney hydraulic power systems.

Cowan, H J

Development of Reinforced Concrete Construction in new Zealand and Australia. Keynote address to First Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Christchurch NZ, 1994.

Cowan, H J

From Wattle & Daub to Concrete & Steel: The engineering heritage of Australia’s buildings

0 522 84730 7

Crisp, C (ed)

Economic Recycling and Conservation of Structures. Technical Notes Volume. (Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering University of Sydney). Materials, techniques and philosophy of structural conservation.

0 86758 488 2

Cunningham, C

The Blue Mountains Rediscovered (Kangaroo Press) 1996. History of the exploration and debunking of myths

0 86417 768 2

Davies, A & Stanbury, P

The Mechanical Eye in Australia – Photography 1841-1900 (Oxford University Press) 1985. The history of early Australian photography, with a listing of over 3000 professional and amateur photographers and clues for dating photographs – a valuable research tool.

0 19 554604 0

Department of Housing and Construction

Cockatoo Island Assessment of Cultural Heritage 1986

Department of Conservation and Land Management

Lands Department Building, Sydney

Department of Main Roads, NSW

The Roadmakers. (DMRNSW) 1976. History of main roads in NSW.

0 7240 0439 4

Department of Main Roads, NSW

The Story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Department of Main Roads, NSW

Timber Truss Bridge Maintenance Handbook. (Department of Main Roads, Sydney) 1987. Contains much valuable historical and descriptive material, plus a gazetteer.

De Vries, Susanna

Historic Sydney – The Founding of Australia. (Pandanus Books) 1983

0 9585408 2 9

Drew, M D

Mining People: A Century- Highlights of the First Hundred Years of the AUSIMM 1893-1993. The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 1993

Drew, Philip

The Masterpiece – Jørn Utzon: A Secret Life (Hardie Grant Books) 1999. (See also Messent, David)

1 876719 34 6

Eardley, Clifford H

The Railways of the South Maitland Coalfields. (Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division) 1969.    Describes the building and operation of the colliery railway network around Cessnock and Maitland.

Eardley, Clifford H

The Railways of J and A Brown. (Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division) 1972. Describes the building and operation of the colliery railways from Paxton to Hexham.

0 90965 000 4 

Eardley, Clifford H and Stephens, Eric M

The Shale Railways of New South Wales.  (Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division). A descriptive history of most of the State's oil shale mines, refineries and their railways.

0 90965 0039

Emmanuel, Cedric & van Summers, Tess

Cedric Emanuel’s Sydney Harbour Sketchbook ( reprinted  by Landsdowne Publishing Pty Ltd) 1997

1 86302 576 6

Evans, Tony

C Y O’Connor: His Life and Legacy (University of Western Australia) 2001.

Fitzgerald, S

City's Centrepiece - The History of the Sydney GPO. (Hale & Iremonger) 1988.                                      

0 86806 304 5

Fitzgerald, S

Pyrmont and Ultimo Under Siege. (Hale & Iremonger) 1994  

0 86806 514 5

Fitzgerald, S

Sydney 1842-1992. (Hale & Iremonger) 1992. Official history of City of Sydney.

0 86806159 9   

Flannery, Tim

The Birth of Sydney (The Text Publishing Company) 1999.

1 876485 45 0