Pierre Manhès
French engineer and industrialist
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| Intro | French engineer and industrialist | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Engineer Industrialist Metallurgist | |
| Work field | Business Engineering | |
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| Birth | 22 July 1841, Lyon | |
| Death | 4 February 1906Nantua (aged 64 years) | |
| Star sign | Cancer |
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Pierre Manhès (1841 – 1906) was a French metallurgist and businessman, who succeeded in 1880 to adapt the Bessemer process to the pyrometallurgy of the copper. With his engineer Paul David (metallurgist), he developed the Manhès-David process and converter, which were widely adopted, mainly in the United States.
Nowadays, in the beginning of the XXI, Manhès-David process is still in use, to refine 90 % of the copper mattes, and 60 % of the nickel extracted in the world. But his silica-lined converter has been superseded by the improved Peirce-Smith converter