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Show Chemical Triumphs. Tho steel Industry Is today at every point under tho strictest chomlcnl control. con-trol. An eminent authority estimates that the Bessemer process alono added, directly and Indirectly, $2,000,000,000 yearly to the world's wealth. Chemical processes of making mod der and Indigo colors have changed the face of those Industries. One-half of the entire consumption of Indigo is now produced In German chemical plants Ultramarine 1b now furnished by chemistry at half the price of copper, whereas .In the form of lapis lazuli, in the days of Lieblg, It was dearer than gold. |