WILLSON CARBIDE MILL, VICTORIA ISLAND OTTAWA, ON
WILLSON CARBIDE MILL, VICTORIA ISLAND OTTAWA, ON
1 PagesTelephone Americas : Canada +1 613 225 3381 ? USA 1 800 363 6066 Europe +44 (0) 1633 246614 ? Australasia +61 (0) 2 4929 4841 E mail solutions@cintec.com ? http://www.cintec.com/cintec/case-studies.php WILLSON CARBIDE MILL, VICTORIA ISLAND OTTAWA, ON, Inventor Thomas Willson developed a process for producing calcium carbide in 1892 and founded the Ottawa Carbide Company. He sold the American patent for the process to a firm which later became the Union Carbide Company He built a mill on Victoria Island between 1899 and 1900 to produce acetylene gas (a product of calcium carbide). The building, which Willson helped to design, was attractive in appearance (with stone exterior) and innovative in design. By 197
