Sarah Wilmot

See, especially, the papers by Sarah Wilmot, and Arne Andersen. 

Chemical News, 6 (1862), pp. 202-203 A.E. Dingle, "The monster nuisance of all" Landowners, alkali manufactures, and air pollution, 1828-1864 , Economic History Review, 35 (1982), 529-548 R. MacLeod, The Alkali Acts administration, 1863-84 the emergence of the civil scientist , V/crona/i Studies, 9 (1965-66), 85-112 Schramm, op. cit. (31) and the papers by Peter Reed and Sarah WilmOt in this volume. 

The requirements of the Alkali Acts of 1863 and 1874 (which implied the monitoring and control of gas emissions) are the most sharply focused of possible reasons for the employment of trained men. The public officials responsible for the implementation of the Acts, the Alkali Inspectors, in their reports, related the growth of laboratories to the Acts, though they did not claim that the laboratories establishment was simply a consequence of the Acts existence.While this offers a kind of explanation, it might be asked, how did it come about that the legal framework was predicated on the categories of analytical chemistry The public character of science will probably form part of any answer, but Sarah Wilmot s paper in this volume, with its emphasis on manufacturers and academics interest... 

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