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Tamblyn, Norman Edwin Tonkin (1912 - 2000)

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Born: 29 January 1912 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Died: 30 September 2000.

Norman Edwin T. Tamblyn worked for CSIRO. He was interested in methods of preserving wood, working on rail sleeper preservation in 1952 and taking out a patent for treating green timber in 1958. In about 1976 he presented a paper at a meeting of the Institute of Wood Science on the past, present and future of wood preservation in Australia.

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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=P003988. [ Details ]

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

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