Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Prof. Herbert Haultain

1869--1962

ENGINEER! He came up with the ritual for which engineers are sworn in.
1922. The oath and the creed: The Rudyard Kipling poem.
That's wicked. The ritual calling of the Engineer, or Kipling ritual.

He was a professor. An inventor.
Made new techniques to get small materials when panning.
"The Superpanner and Infrasizer, for sizing in the sub-sieve materials of extremely small size."

born in England--studied in england and Germany.
Worked at a tin mine in Bohemia in 1889. WOW that's old.
Worked all over.

in 1908 became a Prof of Mining Engineering at U of T.
A good teacher.

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