gave up his partnership in 1768. In the 1760s Roebuck took a lease on estates with coal mines and a salt works at Kinneil, about 10 km east of Carron, though he could raise enough capital to develop the

different sectors and locations – a steelworks and coal mines near Katowice, a department store, a salt-importing business and a mill in Warsaw, lead mines at Olkusz, an agricultural machinery works and

breakthrough, using sea-salt as his raw material. He was granted a patent but was never paid the prize money. The process involved two stages. The first was to treat common salt with sulphuric acid in a [...] such as seaweed, the barilla plant or wood ash; however the raw material for Leblanc’s process was salt. It was an invention of huge importance, thought it brought Leblanc only personal tragedy. Leblanc [...] industrialists in the north of England, first near Newcastle and later near Liverpool: regions where sea salt and coal were readily available. By 1880, 120 works in Britain used it. Initially, the biproducts

Sir Titus Salt was one of the most eminent entrepreneurs in Victorian Britain, and left a lasting legacy of buildings. He was born at Morley, Yorkshire, the son of a woolstapler who traded in Bradford [...] architects Lockwood & Mawson. The 824 houses in the village of Saltaire accommodated 4300 people by 1871. Salt was a Congregationalist by religion, and constructed a fine chapel for that denomination at Saltaire

in the Mansfeld area and to power the salt works at Kötzschau, Schönebeck and Teuditz. Beyond Saxony, they provided engines in North-Rhine Westphalia for the salt works at Unna near Dortmund in 1799, and [...] Lauchhammer foundry. At Kołobrzeg (then in Prussia and now in Poland) they made two engines for the salt works on the Baltic sea in 1806. Williams trained many people in German-speaking countries to build

at the University of Brussels. His company became involved in mining, producing coal, limestone and salt for use in chemical works, and still operates about 70 plants world-wide.

New Schio, a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert Owen and Sir Titus Salt, that was designed by the architect Antoni Caragaro Negrin (1821-98). He was a devout Catholic and

creator of a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert Owen and Sir Titus Salt. In 1890 he re-located his textile factory from Sants in present day Barcelona to his Can Soler de

became government Director of Mining and Mechanical Engineering. He designed conveyor system at the salt works at Reichenhall. The publication of his book "Vollständige Theorie der Saug- und Hebepumpen"

Heynitz was acknowledged in his lifetime as the greatest expert in Germany on mining, metallurgy, salt workings and the mining of coins. He was the uncle of Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Reden (1752-1815)

in the development of a new type of electrolytic cell for producing caustic soda and chlorine from salt that led to establishment of Hooker Electrochemical Co at Niagara Falls. His most important innovation