James MacTear
id:
james-mactear-193-2978975
title:
James MacTear
text:
James MacTear was a Scottish chemical engineer who became a partner and the technical manager of the St Rollox Chemical Works in Glasgow. Mactear was known for inventing a rotating furnace that was used for the continuous manufacturing of sodium sulfate. He influenced the technical development of the chamber process for making sulphuric acid. In 1871, MacTear, created a chemical process to recover sulphur from the alkali waste piles behind the factory at St Rollox. In 1879, MacTear was the first
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Scottish chemist
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_MacTear
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-10T13:41:53Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q63160119","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63160119"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14