Additional Contributors Include Harrison E. Howe, S. C. Lind, Walter A. Schmidt, And Others.

The advent of the chamber process for the manufacture of sulfuric acid brought to the field of commercial inorganic chemistry what was probably the first large-scale application of the phenomenon of catalysis. In the field of organic chemistry it had been employed for thousands of years in the manufacture of intoxicating beverages, but it was not until the time of Berzelius that it was recognized as a distinct influence upon the speed of chemical reactions and was given its present name.