UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

T W 0   S P E C I A L   L E C T U R E S

by

DR. R. A. BUCHANAN

(Director, Centre for the History of Technology, Science and Society -
University of Bath).

 


1.   Tuesday, 17th March 1981, at 5.30 p.m.
(Theatre E1, 3rd Floor, Mechanical Engineering Building, University
of Melbourne).

"PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY"

2.   Friday, 20th March, 1981, at 5.30 p.m.
(Theatre E1, 3rd Floor, Mechanical Engineering Building, University
of Melbourne).

"THE PROGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY"



Dr. Buchanan, who is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Research School
of Social Sciences, A.N.U., Canberra, is one of the world's leading Industrial
Archaeologists. Among other things he is at present a Royal Commissioner on
Historical Monuments (England) , Vice-President of the Newcomen Society for
the Study of the History of Technology, and a Past-President of the Association for
Industrial Archaeology (Britain.). He is widely known for his published
works on industrial history subjects.