1. William Gossage was a chemical manufacturer who established a soap making business in Widnes, Lancashire, England.
12 Facts About William Gossage
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William Gossage was born in the village of Burgh-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire to Thomas and Eleanor Gossage, the youngest of 13 children.
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William Gossage filled a derelict windmill with gorse and brushwood, introduced the gas at the bottom, and water at the top, and found that little or no fumes remained at the top.
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William Gossage developed this technique into the Gossage tower, using a deep bed of coke in a high tower to absorb the gas.
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The William Gossage condensing towers were eventually used almost universally by the Leblanc factories.
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From 1841 to 1844 William Gossage was in Birmingham manufacturing white lead and from 1844 to 1848 he was in Neath, Wales, experimenting with copper smelting.
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William Gossage returned to Stoke Prior in 1848 and in 1850 he moved to Widnes.
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William Gossage continued to experiment throughout the rest of his career and his patents totalled over 50.
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William Gossage married Mary Herbert of Leamington in 1824 with whom he had seven children.
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William Gossage was the first chairman of the Widnes Local Board set up in 1865.
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William Gossage was a signatory to an appeal for donations to build an Anglican church at West Bank.
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William Gossage died in 1877 at his home in Dunham Massey, which was then in the county of Cheshire.