Salt & the Chemical Revolution

The impact of the chemical revolution on the salt industry was enormous.

It brought with it improvements to the extraction and refinement process and the discovery of new uses of salt. With so much to cover, this section of the History of Salt is  split into the following sections:

18th, 19th & 20th Century Salt Making

• Eighteenth Century Salt Making – Inland White Salt
• Eighteenth Century Salt Making – Open Pan Salt Technology
• Nineteenth Century Salt Making – Developments in Salt Making Technology
• Nineteenth Century Salt Making – The Entrepreneurs
• Nineteenth Century Salt Making – Tricks of the Trade
• Salt Making in the 20th Century

The Impact on the Trade

• Salt & the Salt Tax
• Salt Making Salt as an Industrial Chemical
• Salt Making after the Salt Tax

The Development of Salt Production

• The Ammonia-Soda Process
• The Development of Vacuum Evaporation in the UK
• The Electrolysis of Brine
• The Leblanc Process
• The Salt-Based Chemical Industry
• The Vacuum Process
• Vacuum Evaporator Design and Operation