Gold Rush

Rapid Opening of gold fields

Mar 3, 1850

13 steam engines in Ballarat

Mar 3, 1855

mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines

Scott Clow and Prebble opened the first cast-iron foundry in Melbourne

Mar 3, 1856

135 steam engines in ballarat

Mar 3, 1858

mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines

Enoch Hughes established a rolling mill in melbourne

Mar 3, 1860

342 steam engines is ballarat

Mar 3, 1861

mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines

ballarat had ten foundires

Mar 3, 1861

eight for mining equipment and two for producing and repairing farming equipment

a severe recession in australia slowed down industrialisation

Period: Mar 3, 1891 to Mar 3, 1892