Glover's tower

English

Etymology

Invented in 1859 by John Glover.

Noun

Glover's tower (plural Glover's towers)

1. A large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalyst, effect the conversion of sulfurous to sulfuric acid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Glover's tower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)