[Glover tower: front elevation; sectional elevation]

Creator
Lunge, Georg, 1839-1923
Glover, John George
Form
wood engravings (prints)
Date
1891
Subject
Furnaces (Stove, Oven)
Collection
Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Notes
From Lunge's Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali (London, 1896 - 1909). The Glover tower is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It consists of a series of chambers in which nitrous vitriol is denitrated and the resulting acid from the chambers is concentrated by being passed down through layers of flint, brick, or other materials, against an upward flow of hot sulphur dioxide and air.
Print
Provenance
g. Robert H. Foerderer
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Identifier
TP215 L86 1891 V1 P.576

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