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making zinc, 1843 Gossage attempts to 

 condense copper smoke Gossage and Keutcs 

 anticipate Hollway's idea of blowing air into 

 melted sulphurets Gossage and Henderson 

 engaged separately on treating burnt cupreous 

 pyrites Claudet's discovery for recovery of 

 silver and gold Gossage left Stoke Prior, 

 1850, and came to Woodend, Lancashire- 

 Advantages of Widnes Woodend bright, 

 sweet and salubrious Gossage spent his life 

 in his works Improvements in manufacture 

 of alkali in 1853 Began manufacture of 

 soap, 1854-1855 Manufactures silicate of 

 soda, and uses it in making soap Mottled 

 soap patent, 1857 Soap making : various 

 sorts A patent method for making silicate 

 of soda His patent hay-drying method 

 Robert Neilson, Halewood Gossage's ideas 

 on the concentration of sulphuric acid, antici- 



Sites the Glover and Gay-Lussac towers 

 ossage anticipates the ammonia soda process 

 Even attempted to improve method of 

 manufacture of iron and steel, and also the 

 making of gas The alkali trade a promoter 

 of civilised life Summary of his life Died 

 at Bowdon 9th April, 1877 Buried at 

 Liverpool 1 



II. JOSIAS CHRISTOPHER GAMBLE. 



The connection of the Gamble family with 

 St. Helens The public services of Sir David 

 Gamble The first Mayor of St. Helens 



