Anthony S Travis: 3 books
My Life in Travel
Letters to My Three Grandsons
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
With wartime schooling in New Zealand, postwar schooling in Wales, and later University in Englands smog-bound Manchester, Travis had already travelled 14,000 miles by his 14th birthday! From studying a new and experimental 5 year Hons. Degree course in Town & Country Planning, his career was...
Nitrogen Capture
The Growth of an International Industry (1900–1940)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This monograph provides an account of how the synthetic nitrogen industry became the forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. Based on an earlier SpringerBrief by the same author, which focused on the period of World War I, it expands considerably on...
The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I
Its Emergence and Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists’ War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then, as now, nitrogen products, including nitric acid, and nitrates, were essential for both fertilizers...