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Morris, Augustus (1820? - 1895)

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Pastoralist and Politician

Born: 1820? Tasmania, Australia. Died: 29 August 1895 Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

Augustus Morris tried to persuade Victorian stockowners in 1857 to raise a £100,000 prize to encourage the use of artificial cold to preserve fresh meat for transport to Europe. He remained a publicist for refrigeration, visiting England in 1867 to investigate competing methods and popularise the idea of frozen meat.

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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=P003799. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 29 January 2007

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