MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
MS 044 – MICHELL, A G M
Inventor of the Michell Thrust Bearing, a tilting-pad device which made possible much of the modern development of steam and water turbines and of propeller drives for large fast ships, Michell was a consulting engineer based in Melbourne.
- Volume of collected material, as follows:
- Design for bronze plaque unveiled at Michell Laboratory, Engineering School, University of Melbourne, 9th September 1964
- "Anthony George Maldon Michell 1870-1959", by T M Cherry. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 8, 1962
- "Australia’s contributions to marine engineering no. 1. The Michell bearing". Photocopy from unknown source, July 1950
- Photograph of Michell Thrust Bearing no. 23 at Michell Laboratory
- Two unlabelled photographs of Michell bearings
- Invitation to attend the official opening of the Civil Engineering - Surveying Building at the University of Melbourne on 9th September 1964
- Design for bronze plaque unveiled at Michell Laboratory, Engineering School, University of Melbourne, 9th September 1964
- Volume containing all of the above except the biographical memoir by T M Cherry, and with the items arranged in a slightly different order
1.5cm
