Person
Potter, Charles Vincent (1859 - 1908)
- Born
- 26 September 1859
Sydenham, Kent, England - Died
- 27 May 1908
Balwyn, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Analytical chemist and Engineer
Summary
Charles 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.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Davey, Christopher J., 'Potter, Charles Vincent (1859-1908), analytical chemist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 264-265. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110271b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536414. Details
- 'Potter, Charles Vincent (1859-1908)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://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/index_p.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'A Mixed and Malted Career - Charles Potter' p.34. Details
- McPhee, Margaret, Dictionary of Australian Inventions and Discoveries (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 175 pp. Reference on page 57. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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