Charcoal And Charcoal Burning

This book describes the rapid growth of the charcoal industry up to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and how the emphasis of development changed to the production and refining of charcoal's by-products - acetic acid, tar and wood spirit - for the textile industry and the rapidly growing chemical industries.

• | By (Author): D.W. Kelley
• | Series: Shire album
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2002
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 32 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0852637314
• | ISBN-13: 9780852637319