Book Talk – Chemistry Professor Peter Spellane on the Industrial and Chemical History of Newtown Creek
Chemical and Petroleum Industries at Newtown Creek (2022) blends history, science, and commerce along New York’s 19th-century waterfront. Inspiration for the book, Professor Spellane explains, began while participating alongside City Tech colleagues in an interdisciplinary 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, “Water and Work: The History and Ecology of the Brooklyn Waterfront.” Spellane’s
