The Museum of Applied Science in Melbourne committed in the earlier 1950s to the development of a radiocarbon dating laboratory that would provide dates for carbonaceous material obtained by archaeologists and anthropologists. Progress through the 1950s was very slow due to under-resourcing and -staffing, but Victorian researchers obtained results by sending material to New Zealand and the USA for dating. The laboratory was officially opened in 1961 but few dates emerged. While the process for obtaining carbon dioxide from carbonaceous material, operated by chemist Anne Bermingham, was satisfactory, the apparatus for counting the carbon-14 decompositions, built by her and a series of electronics technicians was never satisfactory. The radiocarbon laboratorywas closed at the end of 1970, bywhich time several other dating services had opened in Australia.

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1952-70 年维多利亚应用科学博物馆的放射性碳测年：先锋企业

墨尔本应用科学博物馆在 1950 年代初期致力于开发放射性碳测年实验室，该实验室将为考古学家和人类学家获得的碳质材料提供日期。由于资源不足和人员配备不足，1950 年代的进展非常缓慢，但维多利亚时代的研究人员通过将材料发送到新西兰和美国进行测年获得了结果。该实验室于 1961 年正式开放，但日期很少。虽然由化学家 Anne Bermingham 操作的从碳质材料中获取二氧化碳的过程令人满意，但由她和一系列电子技术人员建造的用于计算碳 14 分解的设备却从未令人满意。放射性碳实验室于 1970 年底关闭，