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Back then, the production of sulphuric acid was extremely expensive. The first sample of sulphuric acid was prepared by Johann Van Helmont (c.1600) with ferrrous sulfate and by burning sulphur. Johann Glauber was the first person to synthesize the chemical during the seventeenth century, but sulphuric acid became wellknown in around 1740 because of Joshua Ward. Not too long after, in 1746, John Roebuck created the 'lead chamber process', which was an industrial method of producing sulphuric acid in large quantities. Then, in 1830, Peregrine Phillips made the 'sulphuric acid contact process', which was not really used until there was a need for concentrated acid.
*portraits of Johann Van Helmont and Johann Glauber