|
Gray's Ferry Chemical Works, Harrison Brothers & Co.
Firmenname | Gray's Ferry Chemical Works, Harrison Brothers & Co. |
Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Straße | Green Street |
Art des Unternehmens | chemische Fabrik |
Anmerkungen | [Bishop] nur "Harrison Brothers & Co.". Lage (1868): Green Street, oberhalb Third Street; [Hexamer]: Grays Ferry Road, 35th Street und 36th Street (Nordost-Ecke; Schuylkill River). Bis zum Tod des Gründers John Harrison (1833) unter der Firma "John Harrison & Sons", dann Übernahme durch seine Söhne George Leib Harrison (*28.10.1811), Thomas Harrison (1805?1900) und Michael Leib Harrison (1807?1881) unter obiger Firma. |
Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 73] Wikipedia [Hexamer General Surveys, Plates 631+1206-1207+1483-1484+1767-1768+1961-1962+2195-2196+2777-2778 (1872+1877+1880+1883+1885+1888+1894)] |
Zeit |
Ereignis |
17.12.1773 |
Geburt des Gründers John Harrison in Philadelphia als sechster Sohn von Thomas Harrison (* um 1640; aus Stoneraise, Castle Sowerby, Cumberland County, England) und Sarah Richards. - Er macht eine Lehre in der Drogerie des Chemikers Townsend Speakman, der den Softdrink Nephite Julep erfand, und studiert dann zwei Jahre in Europa bei Joseph Priestley. |
1793 |
John Harrison beginnt in seinem Drug Store mit der Produktion von Schwefelsäure. |
1806 |
Die Firma ist voll etabliert als Hersteller von Vitriolöl und anderen Chemiklien in der Green Street. |
1807 |
Bau einer Bleikammer zur Herstellung von 1.500 Korbflaschen Schwefelsäure im Jahr. |
1833 |
Tod des Gründers, John Harrison, und Umwandlung aus "John Harrison & Sons" in "Harrison Brothers & Co." |
1864 |
Erbaut |
06.1880 |
Constantin Fahlberg beginnt seine Arbeit bei "Harrison Brothers & Co." in Philadelphia |
Herbst 1884 |
Ende der Tätigkeit Constantin Fahlbergs bei "Harrison Brothers & Co." in Philadelphia |
1918 |
Übernahme durch DuPont |
Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
Farben |
1872 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1894 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
|
Schwefelsäure |
1793 |
Beginn |
1813 |
mit Platin als Katalysator |
|
Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
1872 |
Dampfkessel |
5 |
|
unbekannt |
|
|
|
|
|
1877 |
Dampfpumpe |
1 |
|
unbekannt |
|
|
|
|
|
1877 |
Dampfpumpe |
1 |
|
unbekannt |
|
|
|
|
|
1885 |
Dampfkessel |
22 |
|
unbekannt |
|
|
|
|
|
Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
Kommentar |
1872 |
80 |
|
|
|
70 Männer) |
1877 |
150 |
|
|
|
120 Männer, 10 Jungen, 20 Mädchen) |
1880 |
250 |
|
|
|
220 Männer, 10 Jungen, 20 Mädchen) |
1883 |
400 |
|
|
|
375 Männer, 10 Jungen, 15 Mädchen) |
1885 |
400 |
|
|
|
360 Männer, 20 Jungen, 20 Mädchen) |
1894 |
400 |
|
|
|
360 Männer, 20 Jungen, 20 Mädchen |
ZEIT | 1868 |
THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
TEXT | John Harrison was the first successful manufacturer of Oil of Yitriol in. the United States. He had spent two years in Europe in acquainting himself, as far as he could gain access to them, with the processes used by the chemists, and after his return to America devoted himself to the manufacturing of Chemicals. How much earlier he succeeded we have no means of ascertaining; but in 1806 he was fully established as a manufacturer of oil of vitriol and other chemicals, in Green Street, above Third. His leaden chamber was a small one, and capable of making about forty-five thousand pounds or three hundred carboys of oil of vitriol per annum. So successful were these operations that in 1807 he had built a leaden chamber eighteen feet high and wide, and fifty feet long, capable of making three thousand five hundred carboys per annum. The price which the acid then brought was fifteen cents per pound. John Harrison was the founder of the present well-known concern of Harrison Brothers & Co., whose chemical works in Kensington occupy the site of their father's old establishment. They manufacture extensively White and Red Lead and Litharge, White and Brown Sugar of Lead, Sulphuric Acid, Alum, Copperas, Pyroligneous acid, and the Carbonates of Ammonia. Their productions enjoy a high character for purity and genuineness. Sulphuric acid cannot be concentrated in leaden vessels beyond a certain density, and for bringing it to the strength required in commerce, the only means then known was to boil it in large glass retorts to the standard weight. This was a precarious operation, and the losses sustained from breaking the glass and spilling the acid greatly increased the cost of the manufacture. |
QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 73] |
|