Carville Chemical Co
Carville Chemical Company, Wallsend
1841 John Glover started work at the Felling Chemical Works, where he had the idea for a tower in which the oxides of nitrogen would be separated and returned to the sulphuric acid process.
1852 John Glover was employed by H. L. Pattinson at the Washington Chemical Works, where large-scale trials of his tower took place about 1859. It was found to improve the efficiency of the process. Glover did not patent the tower so other chemical manufacturers were able to use the idea.
1861 Glover set up his own chemical works at Carville, Wallsend with W. F. Clark and J. W. Mawson as partners, to exploit and develop the tower.
1868 the works became the Carville Chemical Co manufacturing sulphuric acid, alkali by the Leblanc process, and bleaching powder
1882 The Carville works closed due to competition from the Solvay process.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography of John Glover, ODNB [1]
- Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. By Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell. Edited by John Graham Smith. 1988.