Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Semet Solvay Co

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1886 The first plant in Britain was installed at Northwich by Brunner, Mond and Co

1893 John Henry Darby installed a by-product coking plant made by the company at the Brymbo Ironworks - this was the 11th such plant in Europe.[1]


1882 L. Semet and E. Solvay of Belgium gained a German patent on "Innovations in furnaces for coking or distillation of hard coal" (there may have been earlier patents by these inventors).

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1896/06/25