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Edmund was born on December 7, 1845 in London, England, United Kingdom. He was a son of Francis Gybbon Spilsbury.
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Edmund was born on December 7, 1845 in London, England, United Kingdom. He was a son of Francis Gybbon Spilsbury.
He received most of his education in Belgium, attending a preparatory school at Liege and then pursuing technical studies at the University of Louvain, where he was graduated in 1862.
After a post-graduate "practical course" at Clausthal, Germany, Spilsbury, was for three years in the employ of the Eschweiler Zinc Company of Stolberg, Germany, which was engaged on a large scale in mining and smelting lead and zinc. In 1865 he took charge of its works in Sardinia, and subsequently was sent to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Returning to London, Spilsbury in 1867 entered the service of the British firm of McClean & Stilman, for whom he supervised construction of the iron gates for the Surrey Commercial Docks.
In 1868, in the employ of J. Casper Harkort, he designed much of the detail work of the Keulenberg Bridge in Holland, and of bridges over the Danube in Vienna, and over the Rhine at Dusseldorf.
In 1870 he came to the United States in the employ of an Austro-Belgian metallurgical firm to investigate American lead and zinc resources. He spent two years in this work, then resigned to establish himself in private practice. As general manager of smelting works at Bamford, Pennsylvania, he introduced the Harz system of dressing zinc ores into Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
In 1879 he built the Lynchburg Blast Furnace and Iron Works in Virginia, at about the same time acted as consulting engineer for the Coleraine Coal & Iron Company of Philadelphia, and subsequently (1883) became general manager of the Haile gold mine in South Carolina. From 1887 to 1897 he was in the employ of Cooper, Hewitt & Company of New York, serving from 1888 to 1897 as managing director of their Trenton Iron Company, Trenton, New Jersey.
Here he introduced the Elliott locked wire rope and the Bleichert system of aerial tramways, publishing, in 1890, a thirty-five page brochure, Wire Rope Tramways; with Special Reference to the Bleichert Patent System. In 1893 he presided at sessions of the mining division of the International Engineering Congress, held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago.
After 1897 he was in private practice as consulting engineer until his death, traveling in connection with his work into many parts of the world.
He had but recently returned from Brazil when, in the spring of 1920, he submitted to an operation for cataract, in a New York hospital, and died of heart failure in May 1920.
Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury was influencial managing director of the Trenton Iron Co. , Trenton New Jersey, during which time he introduced the Elliot locked wire rope and the Bleichert system of aerial tramways. Besides, he presided over the sessions of the mining division of the International Engineering Congress at the World's Fair, Chicago.
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He was a member of the Engineers Club, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, American Electrochemical Society and the Rocky Mountain Club of New York.
He married Rosa Hooper, and was survived by three sons and a daughter.
