One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering: From Lewis M. Norton (M.I.T. 1888) to Present (Chemists and Chemistry, 9)

One hundred years ago, in September 1888, Professor Lewis Mills Norton (1855-1893) of the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduced to the curriculum a course on industrial chemical practice. This was the first structured course in chemical engineer­ ing taught in a University. Ten years later, Norton's successor Frank H. Thorpe published the first textbook in chemical engineering, entitled "Outlines of Industrial Chemistry." Over the years, chemical engineering developed from a simple industrial chemical analysis of processes into a mature field. The volume presented here includes most of the commissioned and contributed papers presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium celebrating the centenary of chemical engineering. The contributions are presented in a logical way, starting first with the history of chemical engineering, followed by analyses of various fields of chemical engineering and concluding with the history of various U.S. and European Departments of Chemical Engineering. I wish to thank the authors of the contributions/chapters of this volume for their enthusiastic response to my idea of publishing this volume and Dr. Gianni Astarita of the University of Naples, Italy, for his encouragement during the initial stages of this project. Front Matter....Pages i-viii The Origins of Academic Chemical Engineering....Pages 1-14 The Development of Chemical Engineering as Shown by its Texts....Pages 15-25 Academic Connections of the 20th Century U.S. Chemical Engineers: Influence of the 18th and 19th Century Swedish, French and German Chemists....Pages 27-37 History of a Research Journal, Chemical Engineering Science....Pages 39-46 The Development of Fluid Mechanics in Chemical Engineering....Pages 47-109 Changing View on the Classical Stefan Problem....Pages 111-124 Unit Processes Against Unit Operations: The Educational Fights of the Thirties....Pages 125-142 Chemical Engineering in the Netherlands 1935–1965....Pages 143-151 Chemical Engineering Developments in India....Pages 153-221 Chemical Engineering at University College London....Pages 223-236 From Mining to Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham....Pages 237-244 Loughborough — The Development of a Department....Pages 245-261 Chemical Engineering at Purdue University....Pages 263-299 History of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester....Pages 301-319 Chemical Engineering Education at the University of Kansas 1895–1988....Pages 321-351 History of ChE at the University of Washington....Pages 353-362 The History of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)....Pages 363-377 History of Chemical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology 1881–1988....Pages 379-397 Back Matter....Pages 399-414