Augustus Frederick Wiener
Augustus Frederick Wiener ( -1906)
1906 Obituary [1]
AUGUSTUS FREDERICK WIENER died on July 5, 1906, at the age of sixty-eight. After a varied commercial career on the Continent and in England, he became connected with the metal industry, in the year 1900, as managing director of a company exploiting deposits of vanadium and silver lead ores in Spain.
In the year 1902 he was appointed managing director of the New Vanadium Alloys, Limited, a company formed to acquire the vanadium portion of the business of the earlier company; and practically devoted the last six years to perfecting the methods of vanadium extraction and reduction at the company's works in Wales, and in extending the use of vanadium as an alloy of special steel. With what success he met is shown by the interesting papers on vanadium steel which have been read during the course of the last two years, at various institutions throughout Great Britain.
He was elected a member of the Institute in 1903.