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Hume, Walter Reginald (1873 - 1943)

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Inventor and Entrepreneur

Born: 29 November 1873 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Died: 21 July 1943 Victoria, Australia.

Walter Reginald Hume, in conjunction with his brother in 1910, formed Humes' Patent Cement Iron Syndicate Ltd to develop Walter's revolutionary centrifugal process for the manufacture of concrete pipes which ultimately transformed the nature of pipe manufacture world wide.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P001856. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 31 July 2006

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