This important book examines the early chemical industry in transition from an economy dependent on wood and water to a manufacturing powerhouse based on coal and iron. Beginning with the first chemical works for producing sulfuric acid in 1749, the historical survey culminates with James Beaumont Neilson heating the blast supplied to iron surfaces in 1830. Between these events are perspectives and accounts that will fascinate chemists and historians alike.
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It may fairly be said that henceforth no one ought to discuss the Industrial Revolution without taking account of the materials presented here..
–Donald Fleming of Brown University
No history of the early chemical industry has yet matched The Chemical Revolution (1952) in scope and timeliness. In the past forty years there has appeared a sizeable literature on the character and growth of the chemical industry in the twentieth century, but no work has been made available which provides so wide a survey of the formative years of one of the most important features of the modern world..
–from the Foreword by Frank Greenaway
–Donald Fleming of Brown University
No history of the early chemical industry has yet matched The Chemical Revolution (1952) in scope and timeliness. In the past forty years there has appeared a sizeable literature on the character and growth of the chemical industry in the twentieth century, but no work has been made available which provides so wide a survey of the formative years of one of the most important features of the modern world..
–from the Foreword by Frank Greenaway
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TO understand and appreciate the significant impact of technics on eighteenth-century social life, during that period of flux which was originally characterized as the Industrial Revolution, it is advisable first of all to examine the technological anticipations and preparations of the eotechnic age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Statistical Account, General View, Great Britain, Royal Society, James Watt, Lord Dundonald, Board of Trustees, Charles Macintosh, Matthew Boulton, Session Papers, Francis Home, General Report, Andrew Stuart, Signet Library, Chemical Essays, Charles Tennant, Andrew Ure, West Indies, Earl of Dundonald, Sir John Sinclair, Thomas Thomson, Firth of Forth, Highland Society, William Cullen, Lord Kames New!
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TO understand and appreciate the significant impact of technics on eighteenth-century social life, during that period of flux which was originally characterized as the Industrial Revolution, it is advisable first of all to examine the technological anticipations and preparations of the eotechnic age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vitriol company, sulphur monopoly, vitriol works, turkey red dyeing, sulphuric acid manufacture, bleaching industry, alkali trade, alum works, lead glance, synthetic alkali, kelp industry, alkali manufacture, synthetic soda, mineral alkali, pyroligneous acid, bleaching liquor, bleaching materials, salt duties, alkali works, ground flint, brine springs, green vitriol, alkali industry, vitriolic acid, chemical lectures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Statistical Account, General View, Great Britain, Royal Society, James Watt, Lord Dundonald, Board of Trustees, Charles Macintosh, Matthew Boulton, Session Papers, Francis Home, General Report, Andrew Stuart, Signet Library, Chemical Essays, Charles Tennant, Andrew Ure, West Indies, Earl of Dundonald, Sir John Sinclair, Thomas Thomson, Firth of Forth, Highland Society, William Cullen, Lord Kames New!
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- Englishman's Food (Pimlico) by J.C. Drummond on 10 pages
- Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford on 6 pages
- Science for the Citizen by L. Hogben on page 454, page 480, and Back Matter
- Tours in Scotland: 1747, 1750, 1760 (Publications of the Scottish History Society) by Richard Pococke on page 56, page 318, and Back Matter
- History of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat on page 199, page 382, and Back Matter
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