Henry Deane (engineer)
Henry Deane ( born March 26, 1847 in Clapham Common ( London), UK, † March 12, 1924 in Melbourne, Victoria ( Australia) ) was a British- Australian railway engineer and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " H.Deane ".
Deane made his name with the electrification of the tram from Sydney as well as the construction of the Wolgan Valley Railway and the Trans- Australian Railway.
Early years
Henry Deane was sen as the son of a pharmacist Henry Deane in Clapham Common. and his wife Jemima, born Elliot was born. His father was a member of the Linnean Society of London. Deane attended schools in England, which he completed in 1862. He studied at Queen 's College Galway (now " National University of Ireland " ), where he in 1865 a BA (Bachelor of Administration) and 1882 the title MA (Master of Administration) and M.Sc. (Master of Science) in Mathematics and Science awarded with distinction. Deane also studied engineering for two years at King 's College London and in 1867 he obtained his diploma.
Professional life
After two years in the design office of the railway engineer Jon Fowler in London Deane moved in 1869 to Waring Brothers and worked on projects for the Hungarian railways. In 1871 he became chief engineer at the shipyard of the Danube Steam Navigation Company in Óbuda. 1875 Deane returned back to England, where he constructed roofs and bridges, and construction monitored. 1879 he worked for several months in the Philippines in the construction of a sugar factory and then returned again to England. However, the end of the same year he emigrated to Australia. In January 1880, he arrived on board the " Kent " in Sydney.
There he found as a surveyor with the New South Wales Government Railways work. At first he was busy with the preliminary calibration of the "Northern Line" between Hawkesbury River and Ourimbah. In 1881 he was appointed " District Engineer" for the distance from Gunnedah to Narrabri, 1883, for " District Engineer" with the distance of Homebush ( Sydney ) to the Hawkesbury River. In July 1886 he was appointed inspector ( " Inspecting Engineer" ), appointed in July 1889 as Deputy Chief Engineer ( "Acting Engineer -in- Chief" ) and 1890 for Chief Engineer ( " Engineer -in- Chief" ). 1894 and 1904 he went on world tours to study small railway and tram systems. As of July 1899 his field of work was extended to the construction of tramways and he was instrumental in the planning of the electric tram for Sydney.
One of the most important Deanes achievements was the introduction of "pioneering standards ", which lowered the cost of construction of low-traffic intercity lines.
1905 joined the New South Wales Government Railways their design department and Deane left the company.
In April 1906 Deane was consulting engineer of the " Commonwealth Oil Corporation " and supervised the surveying and construction of the Wolgan Valley Railway. Among the most important innovations introduced by him included the construction of 4% inclines and curves with 100 meters (5 Chain) radius on a standard gauge track and the use of Shay locomotives (gear - steam locomotives).
On March 25, 1908, he was appointed consulting engineer of the Australian Federal Government and entrusted with the planning of trans- Australian railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie. Since 1903, he was familiar with the project, as he was then New South Wales acted as chairman of a meeting of chief engineers on this subject. 1910 Deane was chief engineer of the Trans Australian Railway and oversaw the construction of large parts of the railway.
Deane was also concerned with the problem of different gauges in Australia. So he was asked, for example, the experiments of the installation of a third rail in 1915 in Tocumwal and especially with the " Brennan Switches".
In April 1914 Deane retired from the Commonwealth Railways and worked as a consulting engineer in Melbourne.
Private life and death
Henry Deane was married twice (1873 and 1890). He had three sons and three daughters. On March 12, 1924, he died in Melbourne.
Social commitment
Henry Deane was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and various other companies. He was twice President of the Royal Society of New South Wales and two years as president of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.
Botany
Together with Joseph Maiden Deane published a series of botanical descriptions of some native tree species whose wood is used commercially. In magazines, he often wrote articles on forestry and botany. The eucalyptus Eucalyptus deanei was named after him. His work on the Botany of the Tertiary be regarded as particularly valuable and gave him a high reputation among the geologists of his time.
Swell
- J. D. Walker: Deane, Henry ( 1847-1924 ). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press in 1981. Pp. 259-260, with photo.
- Henry Deane: The Wolgan Valley Railway - Its Construction. Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division, Sydney 1979, ISBN 0-909650-09-8.