Norman Selfe

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Studio portrait of Selfe
Selfe's design of a 'Sydney Harbor Bridge' from 1903

Norman Selfe (born December 9, 1839 in Teddington (England), † October 15, 1911 in Sydney ) was an English-Australian engineer , marine technician and inventor . He is best known these days as the namesake of the Sydney suburb of Normanhurst, where his residence Gilligaloola still exists today, and as the winner of a competition from 1903 for the construction of a 'Sydney Harbor Bridge' (although this bridge was never built and only was 1924–32 according to plans by the Dorman Long company in the form known today ). Selfe designed precision machinery, refrigeration equipment, hydraulics and electrics, and plans for traffic in the city, as well as bridges, docks and ships. He was involved in the Royal Society of New South Wales , the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts ; the Australian Historical Society and the Central Federation League . As President of the Board of Technical Education , he campaigned, often controversially, for an independent, more practical and less elitist system of technical education. This should do much better justice to the needs of industrialization . In some areas, Selfe's achievements were not recognized until after his death.

credentials

  1. ↑ Catherine Freyne: Selfe, Norman . In: Dictionary of Sydney . 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Jan Roberts: Maybanke Anderson: Sex, suffrage and social reform . Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1993, ISBN 0-86806-495-5 .
  3. ^ LA Mandelson: Norman Selfe and the Beginnings of Technical Education . In: C. Turney (Ed.): Pioneers of Australian Education . Sydney University Press , Sydney 1972, ISBN 0-424-06440-5 . p.105
  4. ↑ Maybanke Anderson: My Sprig of Rosemary . In: Jan Roberts & Beverley Kingston (Eds.): Maybanke, a woman's voice: the collected work of Maybanke Selfe - Wolstenholme - Anderson, 1845-1927 . Ruskin Rowe Press, Avalon Beach, NSW 2001, ISBN 0-9587095-3-X .
  5. ↑ Ian Arthur: Norman Selfe, Man of the North Shore . unpublished essay submitted for the North Shore History Prize, 2001, pp. 3-6. Cited in Freyne (2009).
  6. ↑ Stephen Murray-Smith: Selfe, Norman (1839-1911) . In: Australian Dictionary of Biography . 1976. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Selfe, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Australian engineer, marine technician, inventor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Teddington (England)
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1911
Place of death Sydney