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WELDON, WALTER (1832-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 504 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WELDON, See also:WALTER (1832-1885) , See also:English technical chemist, was See also:born at See also:Loughborough on the 31St of See also:October 1832. In 1854 he began to See also:work as a journalist in See also:London in connexion with the See also:Dial, which was afterwards incorporated in the See also:Morning See also:Star, and in 186o he started a monthly See also:magazine, Weldon's See also:Register of Facts and Occurrences See also:relating to Literature, the Sciences and the Arts, which was discontinued after about three years' existence. Though he was without See also:practical knowledge of the See also:science, Weldon turned to See also:industrial See also:chemistry, and in the course of a few years took out the See also:patents which led to his " See also:manganese-regeneration " See also:process (see See also:CHLORINE). This was put into operation about 1869, and by 18/5 it was being used by almost every chlorine manufacturer of importance throughout See also:Europe. He continued to work at the See also:production of chlorine in connexion with the processes of See also:alkali-manufacture (q.v.), andwhich was established on a commercial See also:scale only a See also:year or two before his See also:death—met with equal success. He died at Burstow, See also:Surrey, on the loth of See also:September 1885. He professed Swedenborgian principles and was a believer in See also:spiritualism. His son, WALTER See also:FRANK See also:RAPHAEL WELDON (1860-1906), was appointed in 1899 See also:Linacre See also:professor of See also:comparative See also:anatomy at See also:Oxford.

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