Some impression of the continuing growth in this field[43] can be gained from the following data.
annually "sold or used by producer" in the United States in million long tons (2,240 lbs.)
1880 0.2 1890 0.5 1900 1.5 1910 2.655 1920 4.104 1930 3.926 1940 4.003 1945 5.807 1950 11.114 1955 12.265 1955 (world: about 56) 1960 17.202 1962 19.060
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. _Historical Statistics of the United States 1789-1945_ (1949); _Statistical Abstract of the United States._
annually produced in the United States in short tons (2,000 lbs.)
1939 43,000 1944 85,679 1950 153,233 1956 312,200 1958 335,750 1959 366,350 1960 409,096 1961 430,617 1962 451,970
[1] WILHELM HOMBERG, _Mémoires Académie, 1666-1699_ (Paris, 1730), vol. 10, under date of April 30, 1692, pp. 57-61.
[2] FORTUNIO LICETUS, _Lithiophosphorus sive de lapide Bononiensi_ (Venice, 1640).
[3] Cited in PETER JOSEPH MACQUER _Chymisches Wörterbuch_, 2nd ed. (Leipzig: Weidmann, 1789), vol. 4, p. 508, footnote "c" as "Kletwich (de phosph. liqu. et solid. 1689, Thes. II)."
[4] FERDINAND HOEFER, _Histoire de la Chimie_ (Paris, 1843), vol. 1, p. 339.
[5] G. W. VON LEIBNIZ, _Mémoires Académie_ (Paris, 1682); _Akademie der Wissenschaften, Miscellanea Berolinensia_ (Berlin, 1710), vol. 1, p. 91.
[6] JEAN HELLOT, _Mémoires Académie 1737_ (Paris, 1766), under date of November 13, 1737, pp. 342-378.
[7] MACQUER, op. cit. (footnote 3), p. 551.
[8] A. S. MARGGRAF, _Akademie der Wissenschaften, Miscellanea Berolinensia_ (Berlin, 1743), vol. 7, 342 ff.; see also WILHELM OSTWALD _Klassiker der Exakten Naturwissenschaften_ (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1913), no. 187.
[9] G. HANCKEWITZ, [Hankwitz], _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London_, 1724-1734, abridged (London, 1809), vol. 7, pp. 596-602.
[10] ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER, "Sur la Combustion du Phosphore de Kunckel, Et sur la nature de l'acide qui resulte de cette Combustion," _Mémoires Académie 1777_, (Paris, 1780), pp. 65-78.
[11] GUYTON DE MORVEAU and others, _Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique_, Proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, & de Fourcroy (Paris, 1787), plate 9.
[12] MACQUER, op. cit. (footnote 3), p. 513.
[13] MARIE BOAS, _Robert Boyle and Seventeenth Century Chemistry_ (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1958), p. 226; see also WYNDHAM MILES, "The History of Dr. Brand's Phosphorus Elementarus," _Armed Forces Chemical Journal_ (November-December 1958), p. 25.
