Biographical entry Potter, Charles Vincent (1859 - 1908)

Summary

Charles Vincent Potter arrived in Victoria in 1885 and in the 1890s established himself as a consultant brewer, chemist and engineer. He secured Victorian patents for treating cereals for brewing, a gas engine for a motor car, a washing compound and other ideas 1887-1903. He is best remembered for his work on concentrating sulphide ores being mined at Broken Hill by a flotation process, which he discovered and patented in 1901.

Published resources

Book Sections

• Davey, Christopher J., 'Potter, Charles Vincent (1859-1908), Analytical Chemist', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 264-265. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110271b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Potter, Charles Vincent', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464007. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P002170. Details
• McPhee, Margaret, Dictionary of Australian Inventions and Discoveries, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1993, 175 pp. Reference on page 57. Details