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Smyth, Robert Brough (1830 - 1889)

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Mining engineer and Meteorologist

Born: 1830 Wallsend, Northumberland, England. Died: 8 October 1889 Prahran, Victoria, Australia.

Robert Brough Smythe was Government Meteorologist, Melbourne 1855-58, Secretary of the Victorian Mines Department 1860-76 and Director of the Bendigo School of Mines 1883-87.

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'Smyth, Robert Brough', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000789p.htm. [ Details ]

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Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000789. [ Details ]
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000789. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 18 October 2006

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