Chemical Revolution (Essay Index Reprint Series) - Hardcover

Clow, Archibald; Clow, Nan L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0836919092 ISBN 13: 9780836919097

Publisher: Ayer Co Pub, 1952

Synopsis

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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Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
• Publication date: 1952
• ISBN 10: 0836919092
• ISBN 13: 9780836919097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 680