Chemicals

The largest chemical complex on earth: about ten square kilometers of interconnected plants, power stations, and docks. From coal ...

Herbert Dow cracked the chemistry of brine wells in Michigan and built a company town scale plant around chlorine products. Midlan...

Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, a student of Lavoisier, built water powered black powder mills along the Brandywine. The family firm gre...

William Hesketh Lever built his Sunlight soap factory ringed by an arts and crafts model village of unmatched quality. The works i...

George Eastmans film works grew into one of the largest chemical plants in the world, its own streets, rail, and power, coating fi...

BASF built this plant near Merseburg during the First World War to make ammonia by the Haber-Bosch process for explosives and fert...