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The Industrial Resources of Ireland (Paperback)
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The Industrial Resources of Ireland (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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Sir Robert Kane (1809 1890) was a noted Irish chemist, becoming a
professor at the age of twenty-two. His work on compounds of
ammonia were considered internationally important. His 1,200-page
textbook, Elements of Chemistry (1841) was considered 'the best
extant in the English language' and was widely used in England and
America. The Industrial Resources of Ireland, published in 1844 and
reissued in 1845, had originated in a series of lectures to the
Royal Dublin Society, and contains a mass of factual detail on the
energy, mineral, agricultural, capital and labour resources of the
country. Kane believed that Ireland did not lack natural resources
so much as the knowledge of how to exploit them, and technical
education was necessary. The book outlines an ambitious plan to
harness the raw materials which Ireland possessed, or was believed
to possess. However, the outbreak of the Famine overtook his
schemes.
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