Title
Nineteenth-century stone protection: The invention and early rewsearch on fluosilicates and their dispersion into Europe
Author
Nijland, T.G.
Quist, W.J.
Contributor
Wouters, I. (editor)
van de Voorde, S. (editor)
Bertels, I. (editor)
Espion, B. (editor)
de Jonge, K. (editor)
Zastavi, D. (editor)
Publication year
2018
Abstract
The nineteenth century. with its industrialization and confidence in science. sees the introduction of a wide range of synthetic products for the protection (waterproofing, consolidation) of porous building materials such as stone. brick, mortar and piaster, including fluosilicates (fluates) ethyl-silicates. waterglass, Ba-hydroxides and many more. rapidly replacing the traditional limewater and lin-seed oil. Especially fluates, invented by Jacques Louis Kessler who changed German-occupied Lorraine for Clermont-Ferrand deeper in France. rapidly spread over Europe. Several early material scientists, like Ludwig von Tetmajer and Hans Hauenschild, performed experiments studying the effect. Especially Hauenschild was instrumental in the spread of the use of fluates. That is why. in later years, in addition to the original Kessler fluates they were called Hauenschildfluates. This paper provides a brief background on the chemical engineer Kessler. discusses early research on the effect of fluates and their introduction in The Netherlands.
Subject
Buildings and Infrastructures
Architecture and Building
2015 Urbanisation
Late 19th-first half 20th Century
Northwest and central Europe
Facades
Fluosilicate
Kessler
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TNO identifier
814203
Publisher
CRC Press, Leiden
ISBN
9781138332355
Source
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, 999-1004
Document type
bookPart