Norman Selfe
Australian engineer and technical education advocate (1839-1911) · Australia · Scientists · Died at 71
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Something wrong?Norman Selfe was an Australian engineer, naval architect, inventor, urban planner and outspoken advocate of technical education. After emigrating to Sydney with his family from England as a boy he became an apprentice engineer, following his father's trade.
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Illustration of the SS Governor Blackall
Tourists ride in a coal skip on the "scenic railway", 1915
Selfe's 1891 scheme for remodelling transport in The Rocks
Selfe's winning design for the proposed Harbour Bridge c. 1903
One of Selfe's proposal blueprints, now held at the Mitchell Library
Sydney Technical College in Ultimo c. 1890
Amesbury, designed by Selfe and built in 1888In their orbit
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Norman Selfe was an Australian engineer, naval architect, inventor, urban planner and outspoken advocate of technical education. After emigrating to Sydney with his family from England as a boy he became an apprentice engineer, following his father's trade. Selfe designed many bridges, docks, boats, and much precision machinery for the city. He also introduced new refrigeration, hydraulic, electrical and transport systems. For these achievements he received international acclaim during his lifetime. Decades before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built, the city came close to building a Selfe-designed steel cantilever bridge across the harbour after he won the second public competition for a bridge design.
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