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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-02-01 human Rebecca Rigby updated 2025-09-09 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004943b.htm person Ashcroft Edgar Arthur AACR2 5 September 1864 24 August 1938 Place of Birth Sunderland, Durham, England Place of Death Polton, Mid-Lothian, Scotland Electrical engineer Inventor Mechanical engineer Metallurgist Edgar Arthur Ashcroft was an inventor, engineer and metallurgist. In 1894, while employed at Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd., he patented a process for the extraction of zinc from refractory sulphide ores using electrolysis. In 1895 The Sulphide Corporation Ltd bought the rights to Ashcroft's process. In consultation with Ashcroft, the Sulphide Corporation Ltd constructed the first electrolytic zinc works in 1897 at Cockle Creek, New South Wales. c. 1890 1894 Career position - Electrician and metallurgist with Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd (BHP) 1893 1893 Career event - Invented a steam generator that used hot slag 1894 1894 Patent - Patented the Ashcroft Process - electrolytic process that recovers zinc from refractory sulphide ores 1895 1895 Career event - The Sulphide Corporation Ltd purchased the Ashcroft Process 1895 1897 Career position - Councillor of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (1885 - 2000)

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 Ashcroft, Edgar Arthur (18640905-19380824)

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 'Ashcroft, Edgar Arthur', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Ashcroft, Edgar Arthur Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Ashcroft, Edgar Arthur (1864-1938), electrical engineer and metallurgist Turner, J. W. Ashcroft, Edgar Arthur (1864-1938), electrical engineer and metallurgist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 109