Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th Century

The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies

Wilfred Vernon Farrar, Richard L. Hills (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

342 Seiten

1997
Variorum (Verlag)
978-0-86078-630-6 (ISBN)

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The first part of this text examines the Henrys in Manchester and their role in the chemical industry in the 19th-century. The second half examines other aspects of the chemical industry, chemistry and chemists, including the work of Sir B.C. Brodie and his calculus on chemical operations.

This volume opens with a series of articles making up a monographic study of the Henry family of Manchester, a dynasty that was active in science, medicine, education and industry from the 1760s to the 1830s. This work is important in studying the relations between science and industry, and not least because it emphasises just how much can be learnt from looking at ’second-rank’ figures in the provinces. The second group of papers pursues topics in the history of 19th-century chemistry and the development of the chemical industry, in particular that dealing with synthetic dyestuffs.

Wilfred Vernon Farrar Edited by Richard L. Hills and W.H. Brock, University of Leicester, UK

Contents: Introduction; Obituary of W.V. Farrar, D.S.L. Cardwell; The Henrys of Manchester: Thomas Henry (1734-1816); Thomas Henry’s sons: Thomas, Peter and William; William Henry and John Dalton; William Henry: hydrocarbons and the gas industry: minor chemical papers; William Henry: contagion and cholera; the textbook; William Charles Henry: the magnesia factory; Victorian pure and applied science: Sir B.C. Brodie and his calculus of chemical operations; 19th-century speculations on the complexity of the chemical elements; Richard Laming and the coal gas industry, with his views on the structure of matter; Some early ventures in the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen; Andrew Ure, F.R.S., and the philosophy of manufactures; Robert Angus Smith, F.R.S., and ’sanitary science’; Synthetic dyes before 1860; Science and the German university system, 1790-1850; Edward Schunck F.R.S.: a pioneer of natural-product chemistry; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.6.1997
Reihe/Serie	Variorum Collected Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 224 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-86078-630-7 / 0860786307
ISBN-13	978-0-86078-630-6 / 9780860786306
Zustand	Neuware