RECEIPT BOOK: CONTAINING SEVERAL THOUSAND RECEIPTS, COVERING THE LATEST, MOST IN THE ARTS AND THE INDUSTRIES. EDITED CHIEFLY FROM THE GERMAN OF DRS. WINCKLER, ELSNER, HEINTZE, MIERZINSKI, WITH ADDITIONS BY WILLIAM T. BRANNT, Graduate of the Royal Agricultural College of Eldena, Prussia, AND WILLIAM H. WAHL, PH.D. (HEID.), Secretary of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; author of "Gaivanoplastic Manipulations.” Illustrated by Seventy-eight Engravings. PHILADELPHIA: HENRY CAREY BAIRD & CO., INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND IMPORTERS, LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTÖN, 1889 BRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Copyright by HENRY CAREY BAIRD & CO., 1886, Ferguson Bros. & Co., 15 N. Seventh Street, PHILADELPHIA: COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET. PREFACE. THE principal aim in preparing THE TECHNO-CHEMICAL RECEIPT Book has been to give an accurate and compendious collection of approved receipts and processes of practical application in the industries, and for general purposes. The work is essentially what it claims to be -a receipt book; and all theoretical reasoning and historical detail have been omitted. Popular and simple descriptions have, wherever possible, been preferred to technical and scientific language. The materials have been principally derived from German technical literature, which is especially rich in receipts and processes which are to be relied on; most of them having been practically tested by competent men before being given to the public. In the laborious task of translation and compilation only the best and latest authorities have been resorted to, and innumerable volumes and journals consulted, and wherever different processes of apparently equal value for attaining the same end have been found, more than one has been introduced. Every care has been taken to select the best receipts of each kind, and we are confident that there are few persons, no matter in what business or trade they may be engaged, who will not here find something of use and benefit to them. In regard to the use of the receipts, the observance of the following rules is recommended: 1. Be careful to use the exact proportions prescribed. 2. Always experiment first with small quantities. 3. Should the first attempt prove unsuccessful, do not condemn the receipt, but make another trial, as the fault can generally be traced to a mistake in the manipulation or an error in the quantities. The alphabetical arrangement adopted and a very copious table of contents, as well as index, will render reference to any subject or special receipt prompt and easy. PHILADELPHIA, June 10th, 1886. |