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Excerpt from The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology and Trade During 1905, Vol. 14: Supplementing Volume 1 to 13 Moreover some of the statistics reported in this volume are preliminary, and subject to revision. It is our belief, however, that statistics of reasonable commercial accuracy, promptly published, are of greater value to technology and trade than are statistics, corrected to the last unit, which are published a year or two late. However, it has been nec essary to use these approximations in only a few instances, and most of the figures which are to be found in this book will prove to require only slight, if any, revision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Richard Pennefather Rothwell was born at Oxford, Ontario, son of the Rev. John Rothwell. The father was a native of County Meath, Ireland, where the family (probably originally Scottish) held large estates under a grant from William and Mary. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin; became a clergyman of the established church; married Elizabeth Garnett of Athearn Castle; and emigrated to Canada.
Richard entered Trinity College, Toronto, but after a year there transferred to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. , and was graduated as a civil engineer in 1858. He then went to Paris and entered the Imperial (now National) School of Mines, where, two and a half years later, he received the degree of engineer of mines. Then he pursued specialized courses at the mining academy in Freiberg, Saxony.
After his studies Rothwell entered the employ of W. T. Henley, a manufacturer of wire rope and telegraph cable in North Woolwich, England, where he showed ability and firmness of character. In connection with the wire business he was in France for a time examining some copper deposits. Declining an offer to be assistant superintendent at the wire works in England because he did not wish to give up mining engineering, he returned to Canada and examined iron-ore lands for the English owners of the Bessemer-steel rights.
In 1864, at the age of twenty-eight, he came to the United States and opened an office as engineer at Wilkes-Barre, taking up work also at the near-by towns of Eckley and Drifton, the latter of which he surveyed and laid out. Much of his work was for the anthracite operators, but he also designed for the Hazard Manufacturing Company what was then the largest wire-ropemaking plant in the world. The machinery showed ingenuity and novelty in invention, and remained in operation for many years. At his suggestion the first underground locomotives in the anthracite mines were adopted in 1869, near Mauch Chunk, Pa. , by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Some of the maps which he made after topographical surveys in several states between Massachusetts and the Gulf were accepted by national and state geological surveys.
On the subject of ventilation and fires in coal mines he wrote a number of articles for the American Journal of Mining (later Engineering and Mining Journal). These were based on his experience in connection with mine explosions, disasters, in which he had displayed personal courage and leadership, on one occasion being overcome by gas while leading a rescue party. In 1871 Rothwell joined with Eckley B. Coxe, Martin Coryell, and Rossiter W. Raymond in founding the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Perhaps the conception came from him; at all events he was chairman at the preliminary meetings in Wilkes-Barre. Despite his modesty he held at various times high office in the Institute, being president in 1882. He also contributed many technical papers to its published Transactions. His practice as a consulting engineer grew so rapidly that in 1873 he moved his office to New York and made long trips from there.
The next year he joined Raymond as editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal and later took over its ownership from Raymond. For many years these two able and courageous editors maintained a high standard of technical journalism; their paper became the leading organ of the mining engineering profession and led the way to free publicity for technical improvements. They had a friendly disagreement over the question of the coinage of silver which led to Raymond's withdrawal as editor in 1890; thereafter he was a special contributor.
Rothwell's somewhat positive views on silver were published in a book, Universal Bimetallism, and an International Monetary Clearing-House (1893), which incidentally cost his paper some subscribers. As head of the Scientific Publishing Company, of New York, which pioneered in the exchange of technical information, he began issuing in 1893 a voluminous annual compilation called The Mineral Industry; its Statistics, Technology and Trade.
A short time before his death he became president of the United Correspondence Schools of New York. He was a member of many technical and professional societies, both in America and Europe. Rothwell established, partly from money left by a business associate, Sophia Brauenlich, the Sophia Fund. The object of this Fund is the care of friendless girls under six years of age and the securing of their adoption by suitable persons.
Among Rothwell's inventions and improvements in American engineering practice were his wirerope machine and its accessories, a cylindrical roaster for ores, a pressure-filter, a method of mining soft ore, coal-breakers for reducing anthracite, and methods of chlorinating gold ores. He was the founder the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Rothwell's greatest service to the engineering profession was his intelligent and persistent emphasis on the need of American industrial corporations publishing their technical experience. His book "The Mineral Industry; its Statistics, Technology and Trade" set an example in liberalizing the publicity policy of the mining industry and in 1898 won its author the gold medal of the Society d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale de France.
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On May 29, 1862, Rothwell married Bertha Hillebrand of Baden, Germany. She and their daughter survived him.
