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Cartografia - Toscana - Larderel , Francesco de / Eredi Chemin e Lamotte,
Atlas of the geometric and architectural maps of the boracic acid plant in Tuscany, 1834
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Atlas s.d.t. (but first half of the 19th century), in 2nd oblong (mm. 630 x 460), manuscript. Calligraphic frontispiece, noble coat of arms at the bottom, followed by 29 plates executed in black ink and watercoloured, which depict planimetric drawings, views in sepia, sections of the De Larderel industrial plants, in the area of the boraciferous blowholes, coeval binding in long-grain red morocco, plates framed by a large frame impressed in gold and dry, spine redone. §Atlas of the geometric and architectural maps of the boracic acid factory in Tuscany owned by Messrs. Chemin Pratt Lamott and Larderel, year 1834. s.d.t. in the 4th oblong, (mm. 320 x 225). Title page and 22 plates depicting views, planimetric drawings, coeval red leather binding with gold and dry-stamped decoration, 3 concentric frames on the plates, dry-stamped decoration in the center of the plates.
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The extraction of boric acid from the lagoons was started in 1818 by the Frenchman Francois Jacques Larderel, who founded the town of Larderello. Since 1827, geothermal steam has been used to heat boric waters; the following year the first rudimentary drilling took place to extract the steam. Thus the Tuscan boraciferous region was born, a major producer of substances such as boric acid, sodium perborate, ammonium carbonate and powdered talc. In 1903 the Florentine Prince Pietro Ginori Conti, son-in-law of the Count de Larderel, became general director of the Larderello Company and started the production of electricity for the first time through the use of geothermal steam (1904). The developments of the geothermal industry born in Larderello have been an example for all the other geothermal areas of the world.
Lot declared of notable historical and cultural interest by the Archival Superintendency of Lazio.
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