Scaling Up: The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession: 20 - Rilegato

Divall, Colin; Johnston, Sean F.; Donnelly, James F.

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ISBN 10: 0792366921 ISBN 13: 9780792366928

Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 2001

Riassunto

Precursors of the modern chemical industry began to emerge in Northern Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century. The Industrial Revolution boosted activities such as soap-making, glassmaking and textiles production, which required increasing quantities of chemical products. The Lead Chamber process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid, required for the production of dye, was developed in the 1740s by John Roebuck then based in Birmingham. Production of this key commodity rose steadily. By the 1820s, British annual production had reached 10 000 tons of 100% acid. By 1900, Britain was producing one quarter of the world's output with an annual production approaching one million tons. Demand for alkalis for glassmaking and soap-making, for textile dyes and for bleach was also growing rapidly in the second half of the eighteenth century, and it became clear that existing sources of these materials would not be sufficient. In response to a prize established by the Academie des Sciences, Nicholas Leblanc had devised by 1791 a method for converting common salt into soda ash, which was to become the central operation of the world alkali industry for about one hundred years.

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Scaling Up is an excellent history of the chemical engineering profession in Britain and the development and growth of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. It is well laid out and the text is generally easy to read. Overall, it is a highly recommended book for anyone interested in the history of Chemical Engineering.' --Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 27: 1 (2002)

Contenuti

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acronyms and abbreviations. Preface. 1. Introduction: An elusive profession. 2. `... that doubtful and indescribable person, the chemical engineer...' 3. Catalysing an identity. 4. Designing professionals. 5. Dampened aspirations. 6. Rapid expansion. 7. Unstable equilibrium. 8. Profession versus institution. 9. Conclusions: Distilling an identity. Appendices: Early organisers of British chemical engineering. Institutional statistics. Institutional organisation. Teaching statistics. Occupational statistics. The literature of chemical engineering. Bibliography: Note on archival sources. Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kluwer Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792366921
• ISBN 13: 9780792366928
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 347
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