Chemical and Petroleum Industries at Newtown Creek [E-Book] : History and Technology / by Peter Spellane.
This book constructs a history of Newtown Creek's industrial expansion during the period that began in the 1840s and continued through the early years of the 20th century. In that period, the production of reagent chemicals and refined materials near the center of modern-day New York City grew...
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Personal Name(s): | Spellane, Peter, author |
Edition: |
1st edition 2022. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2022
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Physical Description: |
XV, 110 pages 21 illustrations, 14 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783031096297 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-031-09629-7 |
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History of Chemistry
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- Newtown Creek and New York City
- Skin and Bones
- Oil of Vitriol: Martin Kalbfleisch and the Manufacture of Reagent Chemicals at Newtown Creek
- Superphosphate
- Abraham Gesner and the New York Kerosene Oil Company
- Benjamin Silliman, Jr., and the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company
- Charles Pratt, Henry Rogers, and Astral Oil
- Acid and copper: The 50-year Partnership of John Brown Francis Herreshoff and William Nichols
- The Standard Oil Company and New York City
- Industry, Invention, and the Americans; Newtown Creek, then and Now.