Timeline for Industrial Design

By alenah2014
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    Timeline for industrial Design in Australia

  • Captain Cook claims Australia for England

  • First Fleet arived at Botany Bay

  • Bligh took the office of Governor of NSW, Sydney

  • Chairs for Governor Macquarie made by convicts Webster & Temple

  • Gold was discovered in New South Wales and Victoria

  • Car importation and manufacture begins in Australia

  • Bicycle equipped with a motor for the first time in Brisbane

  • The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed

  • All Australian women gain right to vote

  • Australia's first motorcycle built in Melbourne

  • First flight in a powered aircraft in Australia

  • Trans-Australia railway construction begins

  • First Asutralian bank notes issued

  • Australian designer Gordon Andrews born

  • World War I started

  • Bill Kenard designs ABC logo

  • ANZAC troops attack the Galipoli Peninsula

  • Compulsory Voting introduced to Australia

  • Great Depression started to severely affect Australia

  • Thea Proctor designs cafe for David Jones

  • Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge

  • Stephenson and Meldrum design streamlined locomotives for Victorian Railways

  • Australia entered WWII

  • Evelyn Owen and Vincent Wardell develop the Owen Gun.

  • Holden's Ltd makes first Holden car

  • Society of Designers for Industry (SDI) founded in Australia

  • Clement Meadmore designing furniture in Melbourne.

  • Gordon Andrews designing furniture for Marion Hall Best Inc.

  • Right of Aboriginals to vote added to Electoral Act

  • Colour television and FM radio introduced into Australia

  • Recession in Australia

  • Lockheed Lounge created by Marc Newson

  • Australia Act severs legislative links to Britain

  • Ford Falcon wins Australian Design Award of the Year