James Thomas Humberstone or Humberstone , in Latin America - Santiago Humberstone ( born James Thomas Humberstone , Spanish Santiago Humbertstone , July 8, 1850 , Dover , UK - June 12, 1939 , Iquique , Chile ) - English engineer -chemist who organized and improved the industrial development of nitrate in the north of Chile in the Atacama desert.
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Biography
The son of a humble postal employee. He worked in the laboratory of the London Railway, studied chemistry at the evening courses of the Institute of Mechanics, then studied at the Royal School of Mining. In 1875, he signed a contract with the Tarapaca Nautical Company ( Spanish: Compañía Salitrera de Tarapacá ) and moved to South America. For 34 years he worked at the Peru Nitrate Company in the village of Uara (at first this territory belonged to Peru ), improved the process of processing saltpeter into sodium carbonate , introduced other significant innovations that significantly increased productivity. He received the nickname "Father of saltpeter." Left an autobiography.
Autobiography
- James "Santiago" Thomas Humberstone: autobiografía. Chile: Ediciones Campvs Universidad Arturo Prat, 2007.295 p.
Recognition
In honor of an inventive and active engineer, the COSATAN company ( Spanish: Compañía Salitrera de Tarapacá y Antofagasta ), which had owned saltpeter production in these places since 1934 , renamed it the Santiago Humberston Factory [2] .
Santiago Humberston is dedicated to the poem of the Cuban poetess Damaris Calderon living in Chile [3] .
See also
- Humberstone and Santa Laura
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 mindat.org
- ↑ Factory official website . (Spanish)
- ↑ Text of the poem in Spanish . (Spanish)
Links
- Biography, photos (inaccessible link) (Spanish)
- Factory Photos