Muspratt, James

James Muspratt and Wilhelm von Hofmann, for example, expressed dissatisfaction in the journal of the London Chemical Society with the failure of organic chemists to understand the mechanisms of chemical change. They wrote,... 

Quoted in Michael Keas, "The Structure and Philosophy of Group Research August Wilhelm von Hofmann s Laboratory Research Program in London (18451865)" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1992) 50. See James S. Muspratt and A. W. Hofmann, "On Certain Processes in which Aniline Is Formed," Mem. London CS 2 (1845) 249254. on 249. 

Crudo salt cake, prepared by the action of sulphuric acid upon common salt, usuailycontaras from ninoty-two to ninety-six percent, of sulphate of soda, aud, besides fteo sulphuric acid, oblorido of sodium, minute quantities of other matters, as scsquicxide of iron, et cetera. A sample prepared at tho works of James MusprAtt and Sons, Liverpool, was examined in the Editor s laboratory, and gave the following results —... 

In the early days of the process, condensing the hydrochloric acid fumes proved difficult (or was ignored ) as this reference to the Liverpool Works of James Muspratt (one of the founding fathers of the chemical industry in the... 

James Sheridan Muspratt (Dublin, 8 March 1821-Liverpool, 4 February (or 3 March) 1871) worked (1843-5) with Liebig in Giessen, and published researches with Hofmann (see p. 436). He also published an important investigation on the metallic sulphites. He was assistant in University College, London, and in 1848 founded a College of Chemistry in Liverpool, in which he was professor. He published books. ... 

The Leblanc process was introduced into England by James Muspratt (Dublin, 12 August 1793-Liverpool, 4 May 1886), of an English family, who... 

Regina vs. T. J. Stockdale , Bryson Collection, box DB 112H, p. 10 National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Archives Department Liverpool Corporation vs. James Muspratt , Liverpool University, Sydney Jones Library, Povey X48.3.443. 

This extract, taken from the prosecution address at the trial of James Muspratt for public nuisance in 1838, indicates that very early on in public debate on chemical pollution, the chemical industry was making the claim that the pollutants emitted by their operations were not only harmless to public health, but might even prove beneficial. On this occasion, the court clearly treated the claim with some amusement. In practice, however, the debate was not so easily won, and the issue of health and chemical pollution remained an arena of continued contestation to the end of the century. Medical opinion failed to produce the consensus necessary to achieve an end to the controversy. ... 

G.W. Roderick and M.D. Stephens, Profits and pollution Some problems facing the chemical industry in the nineteenth century. The Corporation of Liverpool versus James Muspratt, alkali manufacturer, 1838 , Industrial Archaeology, 11 (1974), 35-45, esp. p. 37. 

An indictment of the Corporation of Liverpool against James Muspratt, 1838, before Sir John Taylor Coleridge and a Special Jury for a nuisance, alleged to proceed from his chemical works in Vauxhall Road . Papers in the Harold Cohen Library, University of Liverpool. 

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