Clark, Karl Adolph
Chemical engineer
1888-1966

Dr. Clark came to Edmonton from Ottawa on the recommendation 
of President Henry Marshall Tory, to join the staff of the 
Scientific and Industrial Research Council of Alberta as 
research professor, based on the University campus.  His 
specific field of investigation was the development of a 
practical extraction process to be used with the Athabasca 
oil sands.  He patented his "Processes and Apparatus for 
Separating and Treating Bituminous Sands" (the hot water 
process) in 1929.  In 1938 Dr. Clark transferred much of his 
work and teaching to the Department of Mining and 
Metallurgy, retiring in 1958.

Multiple media, 1893-1966, 0.72 m

Correspondence, 1932-1966
Includes family and personal matters; description of oil sands
research.

Diaries, 1926-1927, 1949
Investigations of oil sands and road construction applications;
work at the Bitumount plant.

Memoir, 1893
M.S. Clark (father): "Recollection of life in Germany." 

Photographs, 1908-1963
Includes family pictures; oil sands development (126 images).

Publications, 1917-1951
Includes works co-authored with S.M. Blair and D.S. Pasternack.

Scrapbook, 1900-1951
Includes wedding memorabilia; clippings; correspondence.  

Access: Restricted
See also: S.M. Blair; Paul E. Gishler: Mary Clark Sheppard;
Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering;
Alberta Research Council.