THE HISTORICAL METALLURGY COMMITTEE
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The Historical Metallurgy Committee was founded in 1978 during the mandate of the then President Peter Tarassoff and on his initiative,
to provide a forum for the Metallurgical Society members interested in the history of metallurgy and to promote the recording of Canadian
achievement. At that time Tarassoff was Director of Noranda Technology Center at Pointe Claire, Quebec.
One of the first initiatives of the Committee was to sponsor a section in the CIM Bulletin entitled Historical Metallurgy Notes. In this
section original research on the history of Canadian metallurgical installation, anniversaries of certain metallurgical events, history of
chemistry and metallurgy in the great empires, biographies and obituaries of distinguished metallurgists and mining engineers, and book
reviews, have been published. In 1989 a compilation of selected articles from the first ten years was published as a book under the title
All That Glitters: Readings in Historical Metallurgy. The volume of 200 pages contained 26 articles directly related to Canadian
metallurgical history and 17 articles of general interest.
The Historical Metallurgy Committee holds its meeting during the Annual Conference of Metallurgy with a luncheon and an invited speaker.
Contacts have been established with many organizations involved in the history of technology and metallurgy. For example:
- The Historical Metallurgy Society, London, England.
- Chemical Heritage Foundation in the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, Kingston, Ontario.
- The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society -AIME in Warrendale, Pennsylvania
- Canadian Institute of Chemistry, Ottawa
- The Canadian Industrial Archeology Society, Ottawa
- The Engineering Institute of Canada, Ottawa
- History of Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.
- Das Deutsche Museum, Munich, Germany
- Institute for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo, Syria
- The Museum Library, Miskolc, Hungary
- International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Liège, Belgium
- Académie Internationale de l'Histoire des Sciences, Paris
- Institut pour l'histoire de l'aluminium, Paris
REFERENCES
F. Habashi, "The Historical Metallurgy Committee of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum", Working Paper 4/1997, pp. 18-28, Engineering Institute of Canada, Ottawa 1997.
F. Habashi, "Twenty Years Historical Metallurgy Committee", CIM Bulletin January 1999
F. Habashi, Annual Reports of the Historical Metallurgy Committee.
F. Habashi and F. Ballard, Compendium of Articles, Historical Metallurgy Committee.
M.L. Wayman, ed. All that Glitters: Readings in Historical Metallurgy, The Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Montreal 1989.
Your contribution to the Historical Metallurgy Notes is welcome!
For more details, please contact:
Fathi Habashi
Department of Mining and Metallurgy, Laval University
Quebec City, Canada G1K 7P4
Tel.: (418) 656-7269
Fax: (418) 656-5343
E-mail: Fathi.Habashi@gmn.ulaval.ca
Fathi.Habashi@arul.ulaval.ca
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