Baltimore's leadership in tin imports reflects more than favorable shipping routes. The region has long supported industries that consume large quantities of refined tin. Among the best known is the Independent Can Company, founded in Baltimore County in 1929. Today the company operates multiple manufacturing facilities across the United States while maintaining its historical connection to the Baltimore area. Tin imported through the Port helps supply manufacturers that prod

Author: K. Shirley Editor: Tessa Hanna According to the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, antimony (Sb) is a hard, brittle, silvery-white semi-metal found in the Earth’s crust. It rarely occurs in pure form because it readily combines with other elements, especially sulfur, forming more than one hundred different types of minerals. Antimony is often extracted as part of complex sulfide ores, processed, and refined for industr

By: Kennedy Barrow Edited by: Glenn T. Johnston I. A fictional introduction to tuberculosis as it might have appeared in 1800s Baltimore. The paper boy looked gaunt and pale, but he persevered, his raspy voice cracking as he shouted, “Consumption sweeps through the ships of America—the ‘king’s evil’ has struck”! Many people walked their way through the soiled and grimy cobblestone streets, the smell of a city inhabited by the unwashed penetrating through their many layers of