Editing Lead chamber process (section)

{{Short description|Industrial process}}
The '''lead chamber process''' was an industrial method used to produce [[sulfuric acid]] in large quantities. It has been largely supplanted by the [[contact process]].

In 1746 in [[Birmingham]], England, [[John Roebuck]] began producing [[sulfuric acid]] in [[lead]]-lined chambers, which were stronger and less expensive and could be made much larger than the [[glass]] containers that had been used previously. This allowed the effective industrialization of sulfuric acid production, and with several refinements, this process remained the standard method of production for almost two centuries. The process was so robust that as late as 1946, the chamber process still accounted for 25% of sulfuric acid manufactured.<ref>Edward M. Jones, "Chamber Process Manufacture of Sulfuric Acid", ''Industrial and Engineering Chemistry'', Nov 1950, Vol 42, No. 11, pp 2208–10.</ref>