Inventions whose working principle is a chemical reaction or chemical process. Belongs here: gunpowder and dynamite as explosive chemical compounds, the match and the lighter as controlled-combustion ignition devices, and papermaking as a chemical pulping and fiber-bonding process. Does not belong here: devices that merely contain or apply a chemical substance mechanically without the invention itself being the chemical process, grouped under Mechanical Engineering.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Chemical engineering
WikipediaHistory, term origin, circa 1890Quote, History, term origin, circa 1890
History of Science in United States: An Encyclopedia puts the use of the term around 1890.
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