3
Germany and ‘Fixation’
The ‘Prussian’, a fully rigged clipper or wind-jammer leaving New York
on 27 May 1908.
1
Of the ‘Prussian’, Chile, nitrogen and Haber
‘The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries awaiting the
genius of chemists!’
Sir William Crookes, part of his presidential address to the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1898.
3.1 Iquiqui, Tocopilla and Taltal
On 31 July 1902, the German five-masted, steel clipper Preussen
1 (the
‘Prussian’), left Geestemünde on the German north sea coast near
Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage. Preussen remains the largest pure sailing
ship ever to be built—partly on a whim of the autocratic German Kaiser
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Germany and ‘Fixation’
The ‘Prussian’, a fully rigged clipper or wind-jammer leaving New York
on 27 May 1908.
1
Of the ‘Prussian’, Chile, nitrogen and Haber
‘The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries awaiting the
genius of chemists!’
Sir William Crookes, part of his presidential address to the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1898.
3.1 Iquiqui, Tocopilla and Taltal
On 31 July 1902, the German five-masted, steel clipper Preussen
1 (the
‘Prussian’), left Geestemünde on the German north sea coast near
Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage. Preussen remains the largest pure sailing
ship ever to be built—partly on a whim of the autocratic German Kaiser
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
D. Sheppard, Robert Le Rossignol, Springer Biographies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29714-5_3
79