Gold Rush

By mk85024

  • Rapid Opening of gold fields

  • 13 steam engines in Ballarat

    mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines

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

  • 135 steam engines in ballarat

    mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines

  • Enoch Hughes established a rolling mill in melbourne

  • 342 steam engines is ballarat

    mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines

  • ballarat had ten foundires

    eight for mining equipment and two for producing and repairing farming equipment
  • Period: to

    a severe recession in australia slowed down industrialisation