Person
Sticht, Robert Carl (1856 - 1922)
- Born
- 8 October 1856
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States of America - Died
- 30 April 1922
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Metallurgist and Mining engineer
Summary
Robert Sticht was the General Manager, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd. Queenstown, Tasmania from 1897 to 1922. He introduced into Australia, on a large scale, the German-American copper smelting technology of waterjacket blast furnaces and converters. In 1902, he was the first in the world to successfully pioneer pyritic smelting.
He was the father of Robert Carl Sticht (Jnr) (1895?-1958).
He is commemorated by the mineral stichtite.
Details
Sticht was also
* Fellow, Royal Society of Tasmania;
* Fellow, Royal Society of Victoria;
* Member, Colorado Scientific Society, Denver;
* Member, Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria;
* Member (MAmIME), American Institute of Mining Engineers;
* Fellow, Royal Society of Arts;
* Fellow, North British Academy of Arts;
* Member, American Electro-Chemical Society.
Chronology
- 1875
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Brooklyn Polytechnic, New York, USA
- 1880
- Education - Mining and Metallurgical Engineer, Royal School of Mines, Clausthal on the Hartz, Germany
- 1880 - 1887
- Career position - Chief chemist and metallurgist, new smelting enterprises, Leadville and Pueblo (Colorado Smelting Company), Colorado, USA
- 1887 - 1894
- Career position - Chief chemist and metallurgist, new smelting enterprises, Great Falls (Montana Smelting Company), Montana, USA
- 1895
- Life event - Migrated to Tasmania, to take up position as Chief metallurgist, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd.
- 1895 - 1897
- Career position - Chief Metallurgist, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd., Queenstown, Tasmania
- 1897 - c. 1922
- Career position - General Manager, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd., Queenstown, Tasmania
- 1901
- Career event - Member (MAusIME), Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1902
- Career event - First successful purely pyritic smelting in the world, Queenstown, Tasmania
- 1905
- Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1915 - 1916
- Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1916 - c. 1922
- Career position - General manager, Mount Road and Rosebery Mines Ltd, Tasmania
- 1919
- Career event - Member (MAusIMM), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 1921 - 1922
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Children
Published resources
Book Sections
- McShane, Ian, 'Sticht, Robert Carl (1856-1922), Metallurgist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 93-94. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120109b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7342756. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94262872. Details
- Robert Carl Sticht, 1856-1922, 2013, http://www.mininghalloffame.com.au/hall-of-fame/inductee.php?id=116. Details
- 'Sticht, Robert Carl (1856-1922)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1201821. Details
- Robert Sticht, 2000, http://www.discover.tased.edu.au/heritage/abtrailway/sticht.htm. 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/index_s.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'A Burning Desire - Robert Sticht' p.32. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 23 January 2024