Handbook of Chemical Engineering Davis

Davis, G. E. A Handbook of Chemical Engineering Davis Bros. Man-... 

Davis GE. (1901) A handbook of chemical engineering. Davis Bros., Manchester, England. 

Figure 1. A Handbook of Chemical Engineering, 2nd Ed., 1904, by George Edward Davis. Courtesy of L. E. Scriven and L. R. Lundsten.

But to return to the development of Chemical engineering. .. it is a mystery as to why it was not embraced and fostered in Europe. Certainly the concept was enunciated Davis in England tried not only to found a society, but he perhaps made the earliest analysis of chemical engineering on record. He did this first in a series of lectures on chemical engineering in 1887 at the Manchester Technical School and then in his Handbook of Chemical Engineering published in 1901-1902, and it must have sold well because a second edition was published in 1904. 

The second (1904) edition of Davis handbook was not only illustrated but also largely extended by Norman Swindin to whom we are indebted for most of our information about Davis other than the bare fects of his life (3), Davis said in the preface to his book, If a student s credentials included the fact that he knew by heart the whole of the handbook of chemical engineering and possessed the ability to apply it, he would not have much difficulty in finding a post. If this was Davis ideal chemical engineer, Norman Swindin must have come close to it. 

Biochemical engineering is a subspecialty of chemical engineering. Chemical engineering began in 1901 when George E. Davis, its British pioneer, mathematically described all the physical operations commonly used in chemical plants (distillation, evaporation, filtration, gas absorption, and heat transfer) in his landmark book, A Handbook of Chemical Engineering. 

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