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Balbach Smelting
Balbach may refer to: * Balbach Smelting & Refining Company, a former metal smelting plant in Newark, New Jersey, US * Oberbalbach ("Upper Balbach"), a district in Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Unterbalbach ("Lower Balbach"), a district in Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany People with the surname *Edward Balbach, Jr. (1839–1910), president of Balbach Smelting & Refining Company and inventor of the metallurgical "Balbach Process" *John Balbach (1820–1896), pioneering settler and prominent citizen of San Jose, California *Louis Balbach (1896–1943), American diver {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company (also known as Balbach and Sons Refining and Smelting Company) was a smelting plant in Newark, New Jersey operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first commercial electrorefining, electrolytic refinery in the United States, and until its closure in the 1920s, it was the second largest metal processing enterprise in the United States. History The company president was Edward Balbach Jr., a metallurgist born in 1839 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. He came to the United States in 1848 with his father Edward Balbach Sr. (1804–1890), who started the Balbach family fortune by collecting gold and silver dust from Newark jewelry shop floors, turning it into bullion. In 1865, Edward Balbach Jr. patented the "Balbach Process" which separated gold and silver from lead, which in 1872 evolved into something closely resembling the Parkes process, which had been developed earlier (1850) in England. In 1881, the Balbachs began to manufac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |