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3 unusual facts about Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson


Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson

After a meeting with Frank Gummow of Sydney in 1897, Anderson negotiated an agreement for the firm to became the Victorian agents for reinforced concrete using the Monier patents and won several contracts for bridges using the technology and he and Monash concentrated on building concrete bridges.

He then took up a lectureship in mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne, where he met John Monash.

In the 1920s he acted as engineering consultant to Walter Burley Griffin, on the design of the Cotter Dam and water supply system for the new capital at Canberra.



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