Australian History

[MegsyB007]

Yes! Eight questions - well done mate! Over to you!

 

[shakergt]

A two part answer for this one is need to get this. Firstly who was I and what was my invention

I was born in Scotland 1792

 

[Jaros]

Michael Loam -the winding engine.

 

[shakergt]

Not quite jaros

I joined the British military at the age of 16 as a volunteer

 

[Jaros]

 

[MegsyB007]

This is a long-shot...

James Beaumont Neilson?
Inventor of the hot blast furnace for iron smelting?
Can't find the Aussie connection though, except it was used here...

 

[MegsyB007]

Oops - cancel that - didn't see the previous clue. Not James...

 

[Manpa]

Sir Thomas Mitchell, surveyor, military man and inventor 1792-1855? ( boomerang propeller)

 

[shakergt]

Manpa you are on the right track the invention was something else though and not the boomerang propeller. Only half right there

 

[Manpa]

He was said to be the first to create geological maps?

 

[shakergt]

still not quite right there. This device had something to do with water

 

[Manpa]

Canvas water Bag?

 

[MegsyB007]

I've now read a lot about Sir Thomas Mitchell, and cannot find what this invention is! A very interesting man though!

 

[shakergt]

Manpa you have done it Sir Thomas Mitchell is said to have invented the canvas water bag.

http://www.websterworld.com/websterworld/aust/c/canvaswaterbag513.html

Over to you

 

[Manpa]

Thanks Shaker,

I'm a town, Thomas Mitchell visited the area in 1836.

 

[MegsyB007]

Bathurst?

 

[Manpa]

Further South Megsy.

 

[MegsyB007]

lol. Well that doesn't really narrow it down much! He went all the way to the Vic west coast at Portland and covered a lot of the interior too! I'll say Portland then.

 

[Manpa]

Sorry Megsy
I can be found on the banks of a river that flows both ways.

 

[MegsyB007]

Swan Hill?