Henry Marion Howe, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Marion Howe

American metallurgist

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1848

Date of Death: 14-May-1922

Profession: mining engineer, metallurgist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Henry Marion Howe (Boston, 2 March 1848 – Bedford Hills, New York, 14 May 1922) was an American metallurgist, the son of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe. Howe attended the Boston Latin School, class of 1865, then Harvard College, class of 1869.
In 1871, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) with a degree of "graduate in the department of geology and mining science", later renamed a Bachelor of Science. He worked in industry from 1872-1882 in the iron and then the copper industries, in the U.S., Chile, Quebec, New Jersey, and Arizona.
From 1883 to 1897, he was a consulting metallurgist in Boston, and simultaneously a lecturer at M.I.T.
His first book, Copper Smelting, was published in 1885.
His second book, The Metallurgy of Steel, was published in 1891.
In 1897, he took a chair in metallurgy at Columbia University.
In 1903, he published his Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys.
He wrote the "Iron and Steel" article for the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition (1911).
He retired in 1913 and devoted himself to research in his Green Peace Laboratory at his home in Bedford Hills.
In 1916, he published The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron.