Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934 by Reed, Peter

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781472449788)

Vendor: Peter Reed
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
Subtotal: $200.00
Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934 by Reed, Peter

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934

$200.00
Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934 by Reed, Peter

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x
The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing. Associated principally with the development of the chemical industry in Liverpool - James Muspratt (1793-1884) was the first person to make alkali on a large scale using the Leblanc Process - the three generations of the family also contributed to wider Victorian and Edwardian culture through their interests in politics, education (founding the Liverpool College of Chemistry in 1848), art, literature and theatre. This is the first study to present the history of the Muspratts as a family group and to consider the entrepreneurial spirit they brought to chemical manufacture in Britain and to their many other ventures.

Author: Peter Reed
ISBN-10: 1472449789
ISBN-13: 9781472449788
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2015
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
By Peter Reed
By Peter Reed
x
An independent historian, Peter Reed has written and spoken widely on nineteenth-century science and technology, in particular chemistry, chemical technology, the environment and early chemical dictionaries. It was while working for National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside that his interest in industrial archaeology and history began. He is an active member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group, Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry and Newcomen Society. His book Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith was published with Ashgate in 2014.

Recently Viewed Products