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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2024-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005865b.htm person Read Thomas Andrew AACR2 16 February 1886 1 February 1972 Place of Birth Dean, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Camberwell, Victoria, Australia Metallurgist Thomas Reed was a metallurgist whose career was spent with Broken Hill South Ltd where he started in 1901 as clerk in the store at the company's mine and rose to a 33-year term as Chief Metallurgist. He experimented in methods of measuring suspended dust and finding ways of preventing this, leading to significant improvements in mine conditions. Much of his work involved flotation methods where he successfully introduced the use of ferric salts in the differential flotation process. Other investigations resulted in a marked increase in the recovery of silver and lead. Read played a leading role in the design and construction of company's new concentrating plant, the first to be built of steel and concrete. He was active in the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, being Vice-President in 1944. 1901 1905 Career position - Employed in general store, Broken Hill South Ltd 1905 1915 Career position - Employed in assay office, Broken Hill South Ltd 1906 1906 Education - Diploma in assaying, Broken Hill Technical College 1910 1910 Education - Diploma in chemistry, Broken Hill Technical College 1915 1922 Career position - Metallurgist, Broken Hill South Ltd 1918 Career position - Member, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1922 1955 Career position - Chief Metallurgist, Broken Hill South Ltd's mine 1925 1925 Education - Fellowship in metallurgy, Sydney Technical College 1933 1936 Career position - Chairman, Broken Hill Branch, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1935 1952 Career position - Member of Council, New South Wales Branch, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1944 1944 Career position - Vice-President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1955 1955 Life event - Retired Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1893 - )

Vice-President 1944.

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 Read, Thomas Andrew (18860216-19720201)

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 'Read, Thomas Andrew', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Read, Thomas Andrew Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Read, Thomas Andrew (1886-1972), metallurgist Branagan, D. F. Read, Thomas Andrew (1886-1972), metallurgist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2002 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z John Ritchie and Diane Langmore 65-66