Taylor F.S. A History of Industrial Chemistry

Heinemann, 1957. — 467 p.My intention is to present a short history of industrial chemistry from the earliest times down to the present day. It has not been easy to delimit the scope of such a book, but in the event ‘industrial chemistry’ has here been interpreted in a very wide sense, so as to include all modifications of the composition of matter that have been undertaken for profit or use, even though they may not in earlier times have been recognized as belonging to chemistry nor yet have been carried put on what we to-day regard as an industrial scale.