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Aims to provide an international perspective on chemistry, integrating the story of chemical science with that of the chemical industry, and emphasizing important developments of the 20th century.
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A History of the International Chemical Industry Chemical Sciences in Society Series
author
:
Aftalion, Fred.
publisher
:
University of Pennsylvania Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0812282078
print isbn13
:
9780812282078
ebook isbn13
:
9780585196695
language
:
English
subject
Chemical industry--History, Chemistry--History.
publication date
:
1991
lcc
:
HD9650.5.A3813 1991eb
ddc
:
338.4/766/009
subject
:
Chemical industry--History, Chemistry--History.
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A History of the International Chemical Industry
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The Chemical Sciences in Society Series
EDITORIAL BOARD
Arnold Thackray, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry Otto Theodor Benfey, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry Owen Hannaway, Johns Hopkins University Mary Jo Nye, University of Oklahoma John Servos, Amherst College Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Merck & Co., Inc.
ALREADY PUBLISHED
Peter J. T. Morris, The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. 1989
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A History of the International Chemical Industry
Fred Aftalion Translated by Otto Theodor Benfey Preface by Patrick P. McCurdy
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Philadelphia
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Copyright 1991 by Fred Aftalion All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data
Aftalion, Fred. [Histoire de la chimie. English] A history of the international chemical industry / Fred Aftalion; translated by Otto Theodor Benfey; preface by Patrick P McCurdy. p. cm.(The Chemical sciences in society series) Translation of: Histoire de la chimie. Includes indexes. ISBN 0-8122-8207-8 (cloth).ISBN 0-8122-1297-5 (paper) 1. Chemical industryHistory. 2. ChemistryHistory I Title. II Series. HD9650.5.A3813 1991 338.4'766'009dc20 91-8179 CIP Second casebound printing 1991
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To Batrice
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
xiii
Series Foreword,
by Arnold Thackray
xv
Preface: The Chemical Revolution(s),
by Patrick P. McCurdy
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxi
Introduction
xxiii
Prelude: From Prehistory to the Dawn of Quantitative Chemistry
1
Prelude to Chemistry
1
From Alchemy to Chemistry
3
The Chemical Study of Gases and the Phlogiston Theory
5
The Life and Work of Lavoisier
7
1. The First Chemical Manufacturers
10
Sulfuric Acid
10
The Demand for Alkalis
11
The Tragic Destiny of Nicolas Leblanc
11
Textile Bleaching
13
Further Consequences of the French Revolution
13
The Rise of England's Chemical Industry
14
The Birth of America's Chemical Industry
16
2. Advances in Chemistry During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
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