Chemical Revolution. A contribution to social technology
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- Author(s) Clow, Archibald, & Nan L Clow
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1952
- Pages 680pp; illus
- Publisher Batchworth Press
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted 1970, 1992. Deals with the development of chemical manufacture - which is widely defined to include industries which made use of chemical knowledge - in the industrial revolution, extending this to consider 'the influence of chemistry on social conditions ... [which] we are in the main concerned'. Focuses on the experience of Scotland to a large extent. Chapters include:'Minerals and manufactures'; 'Economy of common salt'; 'Trade in ashes and kelp'; 'Soap'; 'Vitriol in the industrial revolution'; 'Balloons'; 'Cognates to the textile industry'; 'The Scottish bleaching industry' inc Charles Tennant & Co of St Rollox; 'The philosophy of colour'; 'Calico printing' notably in Scotland; 'Mordants and the Macintoshes' notably Macintosh, Knox & Co of Hurlot Works; 'Scottish paper mills'; 'The art of glass'; 'Pottery'; 'Iron and iron masters'; 'British Tar Co' [pp389-423]; 'Light and labour'; 'Instantaneous lights'; 'Farm factories and the economy of vegetation'; 'Saccharopolis'; 'Fermentation industries'