On September 24, 1884, Xu Shou died. Xu Shou was an important initiator of modern Chinese chemistry and one of the founders and editors of China's earliest scientific and technological journal, Gezhi Compilation. Xu Shou not only introduced the most basic research methods of chemistry to China, but also created a set of Chinese forms of chemical science terminology, which were created and translated by him and used to this day, such as aluminum, calcium, potassium, sodium, etc. His representative works include "The Beginning of the Steam Engine" and so on.
On February 26, 1818, Xu Shou was born in Shegangli, Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province. He lost his father at an early age and learned modern science through self-study. Around 1856, Xu Shou came to Shanghai and entered the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute with Hua Xiangfang and others to manufacture China's first steam engine. In 1865, the trial production of the "Yellow Crane" was successful, in 1868 in Shanghai Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau to build China's first machine ship, in 1874 in the Jiangnan General Bureau of Manufacturing Gunpowder Factory, successfully used the lead room method to develop the main chemical raw materials for the production of smokeless gunpowder sulfuric acid and nitric acid. In 1876, he edited and published the comprehensive journal "Gezhi Compilation". In 1884, Xu Shou died at the age of 67.
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