Salt and the salt industry

“Salt” was the name which was given in the first place to the residue left by the evaporation of sea-water, but the designation was subsequently employed to include the other su...

Salt, being existent in all animal and vegetable life, is coeval with life itself; it was present in the first herbage which gave nourishment to the first beast that, in its tur...

After explaining the method by which sea-water is received into the first series of prepared trenches, in which the first stage of evaporation takes place and is thereafter carr...

If we turn from the study of salt as one of the staples of world industry to the history of the salt industry in England, we find that it is practically comprised in the records...

It has been said that _De Re Metallica_ of Georgius Agricola, published in 1556, was regarded as the standard text-book on the subject for nearly two centuries, and in that long...

The theories propounded and the conclusions arrived at on the subject of the formation of the Cheshire salt beds do not differ in any important particular from those which have...

The salt industry of Cheshire may be divided into three periods, viz.: the natural brine period, the rock-salt period, and the prepared brine period. From Saxon times up to the...

In tracing the development of the salt-making industry in this country, it will be observed that, until the last quarter of a century, the old open-pan system defied improvement...

Although no purpose would be served by dealing in detail with other of the many schemes that have been elaborated in the past three hundred years for the improvement of brine sa...