Sharkey, J. E.

Bright Sparcs
Biographical entry

Home | Browse | Search | Previous | Next

Food technologist

J. E. Sharkey was sometime manager of the Kraft factory at Drouin in Victoria. In 1941 he proposed the installation of a perforated trommel to 'work' the cheese curd mechanically and so to expel the whey. This was the beginning of mechanisation of cheese making in Australia.

In the 1960s he devised a cheddaring machine using gravity feed from a tower of star-shaped section to cause the curd to flow and thus to form the desired texture.

Online Sources

See Also

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=P003944. [ Details ]

Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.

Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 25 May 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
Disclaimer, Copyright and Privacy Policy
Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions
Prepared by: Acknowledgements
Updated: 26 February 2007
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P003944b.htm

[ Foundation Supporter - ARC Learned Academies' Special Projects ] [ Top of page | Bright Sparcs Home | Browse | Search ]