Marcuson, W (Author)
Baksa, D. (Author)
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Volume: 83, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 274-293
Colonel Robert M. Thompson as pictured in Figure 1 and Victor Hybinette pictured in Figure 2 were co-stars of the nineteenth-century development of the North American nickel business. Thompson, the leading businessman, was accountable for development of the first commercially successful method of separating copper from nickel, the Orford Process. Hybinette, the leading technical expert, created major improvements to the Orford process, developed commercial smelting of nickel oxide to metal and commercialized electrolytic production of metallic nickel, the Hybinette Process. Yet, the two men were different --- Thompson, a US Naval Academy graduate and Harvard-educated lawyer, urbane and sophisticated, clever in all matters of business and society; Hybinette, a brilliant Swedish émigré, best at molecules, equipment and equations, impulsive, moody, lacking in social skills but able to attract financial backers. But Hybinette's success was never greater than when the Colonel was in control. The two men were truly Yin and Yang to each other --- different but not opposites, complementary, light coming from dark and dark from light
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