Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Arents, Albert

ARENTS, Albert, metallurgist, b. in Clausthal, Germany, 14 March, 1840. He was educated at the mining schools in Clausthal and Berlin, studying also at the university of Berlin. After coming to the United States he was variously occupied as mining superintendent and also in charge of metallurgical mills and smelting works in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. He has contributed valuable technical papers to the “Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers,” having been elected a member of that society in 1882. Among his inventions are the siphon tap, now everywhere used on lead furnaces, the Eureka lead furnace, extensively employed throughout Colorado and Utah, and the well-known roasting furnace that bears his name.