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Muriel Binney

Muriel Binney is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Muriel Binney rather than just read about it. In short: Muriel Mary Sutherland Binney born Muriel Hasler (December 26, 1873 – May 11, 1949) was an Australian painter and inventor. She won a silver award for a 19 metre long painting at an international exhibition in 1908 and a silver medal for her inventions in 1929 at the International Exhibition of Inventions.

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Reference excerpt

Muriel Mary Sutherland Binney born Muriel Hasler (December 26, 1873 – May 11, 1949) was an Australian painter and inventor. She won a silver award for a 19 metre long painting at an international exhibition in 1908 and a silver medal for her inventions in 1929 at the International Exhibition of Inventions.

Life

Muriel Binney was born in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda in 1873. Both her parents, Emily (born O'Shannessy) and George Henry Massey Hasler were born in Ireland and involved with photography. Among the 16,000 exhibits by women from around Australia in the vast 1907 Australian Exhibition of Women's Work in Melbourne organised by the Governor General's wife, Lady Northcote, work by Binney was included, beside paintings by Portia Geach, Eirene Mort, Dora Serle, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Agnes Goodsir. Binney's entry was a huge, almost twenty-metre-wide, mural titled "Sydney Harbour Foreshores at Sunset" which was an entry for the "Best original design for a frieze" in a strongly contested class of 23 other artists. Fletcher comments that 'Muriel Binney's panoramic painting Sydney Harbour Foreshores at Sunset is an example of women's art in an era when maritime painting was dominated by men.' On the 16 October 1907 she registered for copyright the design of "Sydney Harbour Foreshores at Sunset". She had originally made the watercolour for her own home but then realised that the image might be licensed as a basis for a wallpaper design. Her work went on to the Franco-British Exhibition in London, where it won the silver prize in 1908. Another entry was a wooden dining set carved by sixty people including members of The Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW and designed by Susanne Gether.

Inventor Binney was awarded several patents for inventions including a folding cot (1908), a leg prosthesis, and a shoe-stand. Her husband had not supported her interest in inventions. He died in 1927. In 1929 she was in Britain where she presented her ideas to the British Society of Inventors. Some were included in the International Exhibition of Inventions and she was awarded a silver medal. She entered again in 1930 and it was reported that some of her ideas were to be manufactured.

Legacy Binney died in Parramatta mental hospital in 1949. Her frieze of Sydney harbour was kept by her family in storage. It became part of the Australian National Maritime Museum's collection and in the Museum's 1994/5 annual report is identified as 'the year's largest single conservation project,' sponsored by the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation for 640 hours of work by paper conservators when it was prepared for exhibition in their What About Women? program. Repairs had to be made to sections of the frieze to replace parts cut out around door frames when it was displayed in Binney's home. In 2002 it was included in the Sydney by Ferry exhibition at the Museum of Sydney.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Muriel Binney

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Muriel Binney claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Muriel Binney before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Muriel Binney ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Muriel Binney

In research: Muriel Binney appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Muriel Binney in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Muriel Binney is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1873 births, 1949 deaths, 20th-century Australian inventors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Muriel Binney outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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