Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII 1856-1880 1HAVE only vague recollections of what I did in the year 1856. I lived with my father at Seaforth Hall, visited the Woodend Works once or twice a week, and the Liverpool Works regularly, riding into town on horseback. I continued the study of metallurgy, and found it of great use in improving the smelting of the poor copper residues from Wicklow Pyrites, which was only superseded by the introduction of Spanish ores a few years later. Mr. Mason, the owner of the St. Domingo mines in Portugal, saw me at the Liverpool Works, and offered to supply his ore on much more favourable terms than we were paying for the Irish ores. The burning of this Pyrites required an alteration in the kilns, and as the sampling and assaying of the ores for the contents of copper led to much dishonesty, owing to the imperfection of the methods employed, causing a loss of profit on the burning, there was difficulty in inducing my father and brother to buy these ores, which are now universally used. However, I was at last given permission to make a contract for a supply for our Liverpool works, which led to such profitable results that after a year's working they were introduced at Flint and Woodend. This success led me to take a deeper interest in chemical manufactures and to my giving up all idea of following chemistry as a profession. My studies out of business hours were devoted to politics, but not purely party politics, which had no special charms. I studied Political Economy, particularly the works of J. S. Mill, and books recording the struggle for Free Trade under Cobden and Bright, Sir Robert Peel, and W. E. Gladstone. The latter then belonged to the Conservative or Tory party, although forming a special group called Peelites, and after the death of S...
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