Harold Moore
Harold Moore (1878- )
1921 Shown as H. Moore O.B.E.
1931 Shown as Dr. H. Moore and associated with the Institute of Metals
1934 Biographical Note [1]
DR. HAROLD MOORE, who has just taken office as president of the Institute of Metals, was born in 1878, and began his metallurgical career as a pupil of the late Dr. J. E. Stead.
In 1901 he became research metallurgist at the Parkhead steel works of William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., where his work in connexion with the manufacture and heat-treatment of armour-plate developed his interest in alloy steels. Rapid progress was then being made in the application of nickel-chromium steels for this and other purposes. Later work has shown that some of the methods of heat-treatment then developed empirically must have had the effect of suppressing temper brittleness, a trouble that was not clearly defined until some years later.
In 1904 Dr. Moore joined, as chief metallurgist, the Research Department at Woolwich Arsenal, where he remained for twenty-eight years, from 1919 until 1932, being director of metallurgical research. As chief metallurgical adviser for many years to the War Office and the Ordnance Department of the Admiralty, Dr. Moore had a wide experience of Service problems both on the manufacturing and the applications sides.
In 1922 a research on the casting of brass ingots was undertaken under his direction for the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, and this led to a gradually increasing co-operation between the Association and the Research Department, Woolwich, which undertook work on lead cable sheathing (in the course of which the widely used B.N.F. ternary alloys of lead were developed), electro-deposition of nickel, tin coatings, etc.
In 1932 Dr. Moore accepted the offer of the post of director of the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, which had become vacant through the election of Dr. R. S. Hutton as Goldsmith’s professor of metallurgy in the University of Cambridge.