Charles Friedrich Eduard Oscar Schmitt, generally known as C.F.E.O. Schmitt or C.O. Schmitt, was a British mechanical engineer who worked for Consolidated Goldfields in Johannesburg around 1912. He was a member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science by 1906 and was still a member in 1910. A paper by him on 'Future economies in Rand reduction plants' was published in the Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa (1911, Vol. 12(1), pp. 16-30). Around the same time he was one of the contributors to A textbook of Rand metallurgical practice, by R.S.G. Stokes* (1912). He and H.C. Behr* registered a patent in 1912 for new and useful improvements in apparatus for subdividing streams of pulp and other liquids. In 1913 he served on the Editorial Committee of the South African Institute of Engineers.

On 14 May 1913 in Johannesburg Schmitt married Hilda Mary Mortlock.

List of sources:

Apparatus for subdividing streams of pulp and other liquids. Google Patents. Retrieved on 10 September 2020 from https://patents.google.com/patent/US1020251A/en

FamilySearch: Charles Friederich Eduard Oscar Schmitt. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHZ-YM55?lang=en

Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, 1910/11 and 1911/12, Vol. 11 and 12, paper by C.O. Schmitt and discussion.

Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, 1905/6 and 1910: Lists of members.

South African bibliography to the year 1925. London: Mansell, 1979.

Transactions of the South African Institution of Engineers, 1913, Vol. 1, office bearers.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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