mineralogist
William P. Blake.
American geologist, mining consultant, and educator (1826-1910)
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About William P. Blake
William Phipps Blake was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator. He was the first college trained chemist to work full-time for a United States chemical manufacturer (1850) and served as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey of the Far West (1853–1856), where he observed and detailed a theory on erosion by wind-blown sand on the geologic formations of southern California, one of his many scientific contributions. He started several western mining enterprises that were premature, including a mining magazine in the 1850s and the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864.
Everything about William P. Blake →- Occupation
- mineralogist, geologist, mining engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 1, 1826
- Died
- May 22, 1910