Person

Cloud, Thomas Charles (1848 - 1918)

Born
1848
Hackney, United Kingdom
Died
1918
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Occupation
Assayer and Metallurgist

Summary

Thomas Cloud was a metallurgist who, after completing his studies at the Royal School of Mines, moved to Australia and was appointed assayer at the Wallaroo Smelting Works (South Australia) in 1870. As Manager from 1883 to 1903 he was responsible for the design and layout of the works, recovery and smelting processes for copper, silver and gold, and manufacture of sulphuric acid. Following a study tour to Europe and America in 1890, Cloud introduced a number of innovations to the smelting processes. He resigned in 1903 and returned to the United Kingdom. His subsequent career was as metallurgist with several companies and ten years as a consultant metallurgical engineer. From 1907 to 1917 he was a member of council of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy.

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Chronology

1870 - 1883
Career position - Assayer, Wllaroo Smelting Works
1883 - 1903
Career position - Manager, Wallaroo Smelting Works
1903
Life event - Returned to the United Kingdom
1904 - 1918
Career position - Member, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
c. 1906 - 1908
Career position - Metallurgist with Steinhart-operated laboratory in accumulator works of Pritchetts and Gold
1907 - 1917
Career position - Member of Council, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
1908
Career position - Chairman, Steinhart and Vogel Complex Ore Process Ltd
1908
Career position - Member, Steinhart, Vogel and Cloud
1911 - 1918
Career position - Consultant metallurgical engineer

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cloud, T. C., 'Mineralogical notes from the laboratory of the Wallaroo smelting Works', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 4 (1882), 50-57. Details
  • Cloud, T. C., 'The Wallaroo Smelting Works', Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 16 (1906-1907), 55-88. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'Note on Atacamite', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 34 (1876), 254. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'Correction for Weighing in a Vacuum', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 35 (1877), 133-134. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'On the Determination of Copper in "Ore Reducer" Slag', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 35 (1877), 259. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'Note on the Artificial Production of Crystallised Atacamite', Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia, 2 (1878), 80. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'Mineralogical Notes', Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia, 4 (1882), 50-56. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'A Catalogue of South Australian Minerals', Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia, 6 (1883), 72-93. Details
  • Cloud, T.C., 'Mineral Census of Australasia: Report of Committee No. 7. Minerals of South Australia', Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 (1890), 217-232, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14563195. Details
  • Cloud, T.C.; and Rogers, G.J., 'Notes from the Laboratory of the Wallaroo Smelting Works, South Australia', Report of the fifth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 5 (1894), 326-332, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15362522. Details
  • Cloud, T.C.; and Rogers, G.J., 'The determination of copper; and the determination of antimony in antimonial pyrites', The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 14 (1895), 303-304. Details
  • Cowen, David, 'T. C. Cloud: mineralogist and collector', Australian journal of mineralogy, 20 (1) (2019), 17-28. Details

Resources

See also

  • Bell, Peter; and McCarty, Justin, Wallaroo smelters site: heritage assessment (Adelaide: Historical Research Pty Ltd and Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd, 2008), 75 pp. Details
  • Drew, Greg, Discovering Historic Wallaroo (South Australia: Department of Mines and Energy South Australia, 1989). Details

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