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Recalling the ancient Ichthyosaur, this sculpture invites interaction

fountain, public art, sculpture

fountain, sculpture

2000-2010
Adelaide General Post Office

The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected South Australia with…

public history building

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Agriculture

South Australian agriculture began in 1837 with activity in Adelaide Plains, the Fleurieu Peninsula, Barossa Valley and Clare.

1830s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Albert Bridge

Albert Bridge is a cast-iron bridge across the River Torrens at Frome Road, built in 1879.

1870s
Alfred Edward Gerard

Alfred Edward Gerard was born on 11th August 1877 at Aberdeen, near Burra, South Australia, the son of labourer William…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Alfred Hannaford, MBE

Alfred Hannaford was born on the 23rd June 1890 at ‘Wattle Vale’ near Riverton, South Australia, the son of farmer…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Alfred Hermann Traeger, OBE

In 1928 a friendly but self-effacing Adelaide man, Alf Traeger, revolutionized communications in the Australian outback by inventing the pedal…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Alfred Muller Simpson

Like his father before him, Alfred Muller Simpson began his working life as a tinsmith. During his apprenticeship in his…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Amos William Howard

Amos William Howard was born on 31st May 1848 at Silk Mills, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, the son of gardener William…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century
Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson, CMG

Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson was born in Thebarton, South Australia, on 12th September 1883, the son of ironfounder George Edwin…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
August Wilhelm Pelzer

Landscape gardener and horticulturalist August Wilhelm Pelzer was appointed by the Adelaide City Council as ‘City Gardener’ in August 1899.…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Aviemore

158 Stephen Terrace, Walkerville, known as Aviemore, was the family home of Australian aviators Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith.158 Stephen…
Benjamin Herschel Babbage

Benjamin Herschel Babbage superintended construction of the first Port Adelaide railway line.

early nineteenth century, late nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century
Birkenhead Bridge

Opened in 1940 as a replacement for the original Jervois Bridge, the Birkenhead Bridge was the first to employ a double-bascule…

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Breweries and beer

How did Lion and Coopers come to be South Australia’s only major brewers of beer today?

breweries

beer, brewery, business

early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Brookman Building

Developing technical education via a School of Mines and Industries leading to SAIT and then UniSA

university hall

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Building Materials

Diverse materials have been used for building houses, structures and other constructions in South Australia with distinctive local stone giving…
Cecil Thomas Madigan

Cecil Thomas Madigan was born on 15th October 1889 at Renmark, South Australia, the son of fruitgrower Thomas Madigan and…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Charles Albert Edward Fenner

Charles Fenner (1884–1955) made signal contributions to education and geographical science in South Australia. For 20 years he contributed a…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Compass

This compass is believed to have been used by John William Billiatt on the successful 1861-1862 expedition with John McDouall…

1860s
Constance Muriel Davey, OBE

Constance Davey was born on 4th December 1882 at Nuriootpa, South Australia, the daughter of bank-manager Stephen Henry Davey and…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
David Shearer

David Shearer dedicated his life to the manufacture of farm machinery but is usually remembered for the steam car that…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
David Unaipon

David Unaipon was born on 28th September 1872 at Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, the son of evangelist James Ngunaitponi,…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Eldred Norman

Eldred de Bracton Norman was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 9th January 1914, the son of solicitor William Ashley…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Electricity

Although amateur scientists had tinkered with it, electricity was not put to public use in South Australia until the arrival…

early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Engineers

To convert the vision of Colonel William Light into the infrastructure of today has taken the expertise and ingenuity of…
Epic Flight Centenary

Remembering an epic flight 100 years on.

airplane, aviation, Centenary, flight

1910s
Exhibition Building and Grounds

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

exhibition hall

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Exhibitions

Exhibitions have been major occasions in the lives of many South Australians.

art, Centenary, Exhibition, exhibits, gallery, jubilee, technology

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
FH Faulding & Co.

From a humble origin to major international status within the pharmaceutical industry

early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century

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