Charcoal and Charcoal Burning

Kelley, D.W.

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.

EAN

9780852637319

Publisher

Shire Publications

Published

1 February 2002

Pages

32