Engineering Engineering is the job of adding scientific knowledge to make new materials, machines and buildings. A person who works on engineering is called an engineer.

There are more then one type of engineer, there are:

1. Aerospace Engineers, who design Planes and spacecraft,
2. Chemical Engineers, who turn raw materials into other things,
3. Civil Engineers, who design construction of buildings, bridges, etc,
4. Electrical Engineering, design electrical systems,
5. And Mechanical Engineers, who make and design machines.

Henry Deane held positions in the civil and electrical engineering fields. His main areas of expertise were in the rail & tramways of Australia. He worked on electrifying the Sydney Tram network plus surveying new rail lines including the trans Australia railway. Henry Deane was also a member or the institute of civil engineers and of a few other societies.

*1869 to 1871 Henry Deane worked on the Hungarian railways

*1871 to 1873 he was chief technical assistant at the shipbuilding at Danube steam navigation company Altofen Hungary.

*1873 to 1879 he worked in England and the Philippine islands.

He came to Australia in late 1879 and joined the New South Wales Railway (N.S.W.R.) in 1880 as assistant to John Whitton, said to be NSW best railway engineer who designed the ZigZag railway at Lithgow and the railway bridges across the Hawkesbury River,

*1884 he made a trip around the world studying light railways and tram systems

*1890 he became the Engineer In Chief replacing Whitton. During this time he developed an inexpensive way of building branch lines to outline country towns called Pioneer Lines.

*1906 after retiring Henry Deane was employed by the Commonwealth oil corporation to survey a railway line from Newnes junction on the main Western Railway Line to the company site at Newnes. This would require using all of Deane’s creative ideas as many said that this rail line.

Died in 1924 in his Melbourne Garden.

About Henry Deane

Henry Deane was born in Clapham England on the 26th March 1847, Son of Henry Deane. He was enrolled in Queen’s University of Ireland in 1862 and in 1965 he graduated with Honours in Mathematics and Natural Science. He then Studied engineering for two years and got his Diploma at Kings College in London.

Henry Deane was twice married and once left a widower. He has had three sons and three daughters

Harry Deane was also an accomplished Botanist. He loved gardening and all sorts of planting, etc. Of coarse remembering his honour of natural science from Queens University.

Henry Deane was not just interested in Botany and Engineering but various branches of science. His work on tertio fossil botany was particularly valuable, and gave him a high reputation among the geologists of his time.

He has twice been the President of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and for two years he was president of the Linnean Society of  New South Whales, who his father Henry Deane was a member of.

Before he started work on the Hungarian Lines he Spent two years working in the office of Sir John Fowler In England.

With Joseph Maiden he published a number of papers on native timbers and wrote frequently on forestry and botanical subjects, for he found Botany interesting and entertaining.

Henry Deane Great Engineer accomplished Botanist      Henry Deane Great Engineer accomplished Botanist

Bibliography

Wikipedia.com: The Free online Encyclopedia

Along Parallel Lines: A history of railways in New South Wales 1850-1986, By John Gunn

Shays In the Valley: A history of The Wolgen Valley Railway By George Hicks and Dennis O’Brien.