Manchester Technical School

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. 

We do not know for certain when Davis had the fiash of inspiration that led him to codify his factual information and experience, not in terms of process or manufactures but under the broad headings of what came to be called unit operations. Certainly it was before 1888 in which year he gave a series of lectures at Manchester Technical School which was to form the basis of his famous handbook. (1)... 

It is interesting to examine the early use of the specific words chemical engineering in education. These words were coined by Professor George E. Davis of the Manchester Technical School, England... 

Coombs, R., and HuU, R. (1997), The Wider Research Context of Business Process Analysis, Manchester School of Management, Centre for Research on Organizations, Management and Technical Change, Manchester, UK. 

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