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Diagram of a lead-chamber sulphuric acid plant

1911

Diagram of a chemical works: furnaces and towers on the left, a row of large box-like lead chambers in the middle, and pipes and tanks linking them. — Encyclopædia Britannica (after Thorpe’s Inorganic Chemistry), 1911. Wikimedia Commons, from Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, vol. 26 · Public domain · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

A lead-chamber acid works as it looked by about 1900, from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The lettered chambers (F) are the descendants of the lead box Roebuck and Garbett built in Birmingham in 1746; the towers were nineteenth-century additions.

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