Arnold Karthaus Reese
Arnold Karthaus Reese (1867-1932)
1932 Obituary [1]
ARNOLD KARTHAUS REESE had a distinguished career as an expert on blast-furnace practice. During the War he played a prominent part in the organization of the production of iron and steel to meet the enormous requirements of the time.
He was born in Baltimore, U.S.A. in 1867 and educated in that city. Later he entered the Lehigh University and graduated in 1891 in mining engineering. He was successful within three years in improving on the best fuel ratio in the manufacture of iron at a works in Ohio, where he was superintendent. He also held this position at works in Maryland and Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
In 1901 he accepted an appointment to superintend the construction of four blast-furnaces at Messrs. Guest, Keen and Nettlefold's works at Cardiff. He subsequently became general manager of this firm's iron and steel operations.
After the War Mr. Reese took up consulting work, and included among the important undertakings for which he was responsible was the erection in South Africa in 1926 of the first blast-furnace for the manufacture of the pig-iron produced in that country.
He had been in South Africa for two years superintending the construction of large steel plant at Pretoria for the South-African Government, when his death occurred suddenly at Johannesburg on 11th December 1932.
He had been a Member of the Institution since 1906, and was also a Member of the Iron and Steel Institute, before whom he had read a paper.
1933 Obituary [2]