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