Chemical and Petroleum Industries at Newtown Creek

History and Technology

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-15
Mått155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt214 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
Antal sidor110
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031096280

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Peter Spellane is a member of the chemistry faculty at New York City College of Technology, a campus of the City University of New York (CUNY) and an adjunct member of the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. Before joining CUNY, he had done postdoctoral work at the IBM T. J. Watson Laboratory and had worked as a research chemist at Akzo Nobel Chemicals in Dobbs Ferry, New York and in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

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.