Notes for a History of Lead, And An Inquiry Into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead And Lead Oxides
Notes for a History of Lead, And An Inquiry Into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead And Lead Oxides
Pulsifer, William Henry, D. 1905
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The indus- try was established at Buffalo, New York, by Thompson and Company. At Pittsburgh, B. A. Fahnestock and Com- pany erected works and laid the foundation of a large business in the Northwest. Conkling, at Cincinnati, erected another plant, and called it The Eagle White Lead Works. In St. Louis, Mr. William Glasgow, Jr., erected works for the manufacture of white lead by the Dutch process ; his Digitized by Google 828 WHITE LEAD superintendent was Isaac Gregg of Pittsburgh, possibly the ...senior member of the firm of Gregg and Hagner who were engaged in the business there in 1837. Mr. Glasgow experimented with sawdust as the source of heat and carbon dioxide, hoping to improve the color of the product. In this he was successful, but says that, " from some un- known cause the white lead had a tendency to crystallize, and had therefore not suflicient body." This establishment was operated some five years, when it was destroyed by fire, and it has not been rebuilt. A small establishment was also erected during the decade in St.
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