Manufactures

Natural or Man-Made? a Compare and Contrast Book

Trees give us yummy apples but also help us build houses. One of these is natural, the other man-made. Can you identify the natural resource? In this edition of The...

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Whole Earth Field Guide

A source book for American culture in the 1960s and 1970s: "suggested reading" from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, from Thoreau to James Baldwin.The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural...

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Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made

CDs start out as sand. Blackboard chalk comes from tiny sea creatures. The objects all around us --- every single product in the world --- is made from elements found...

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Elastic and non-elastic narrow fabrics

Elastic and non-elastic narrow fabrics - and a chapter on narrow fabrics made on knitting machinesWhen we think of the discovery of rubber vulcanization and the effect it has had...

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Canton Christian College bulletin no. 27

Butchering and curing meats in ChinaThe Chinese, like most people, are lovers of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry, and consume these meats, both fresh and cured, in large quantities each...

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American Horological Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, July 1869: Devoted to Pratical Horology

American Horological Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, July 1869: Devoted to Pratical HorologyHowever accurate an instrument for the mensuration of time may be, it would be of little use for...

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Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber

Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber - A practical treatise on the manufacture of India rubber hand stamps, small articles of India rubber, the hektograph, special inks, cements,...

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The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances;

The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances; - Including Observations on Spinning, Dyeing, and Weaving.History, until a recent period, was mainly a record of gigantic crimes...

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A Short Treatise on Head Wear, Ancient and Modern

A Short Treatise on Head Wear, Ancient and ModernTracing the history of man as far back as we can under civilized conditions of life, we find that in one form...

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A Short Treatise on Boots and Shoes, Ancient and Modern

A Short Treatise on Boots and Shoes, Ancient and ModernAt first they were very crude and simple, being nothing more than soles fastened to the foot by means of thongs...

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How Paper Boxes Are Made

How Paper Boxes Are Made - A practical and instructive book telling how the beginner may manufacture all kinds of paper boxes, with special chapters on the printing department for...

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The Pearl, its story, its charm, and its value

The Pearl, its story, its charm, and its valueIn these pages the story of the pearl is told from its birth and growth under tropic seas, through the search for...

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Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks

Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of LocksThe reader is entitled to know the origin of the small work which he holds in his hands. In August 1852, being about to...

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How to Enamel

How to Enamel - Being a Treatise on the Practical Enameling of Jewelry with Hard EnamelsEnamel is really a glaze applied to metals just as other glazes are applied to...

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Harrods for Everything

Harrods for EverythingThat is why Pears lasts so much longer than common toilet soaps indeed it WEARS TO THE THINNESS OF A SIXPENCE and will then adhere to a fresh...

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The Modern Clock

The Modern Clock - A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation and RepairMidi music recordings have been provided containing the Westminster chimes shown in Fig. 122. Click on...

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A Handbook of Precious Stones

A Hand-book of Precious StonesThe object of this little book is to convey to the merchant, the workman, and the amateur, in a condensed and accurate form, information concerning the...

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Papierprüfung: Eine Anleitung zum Untersuchen von Papier

Papierprüfung: Eine Anleitung zum Untersuchen von PapierDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1902 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht...

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South Kensington Museum art handbooks no. 1

Textile FabricsThese Handbooks are reprints of the prefaces or introductions to the large catalogues of the chief divisions of works of art in the Museum at South Kensington; arranged and...

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Butchers', Packers' and Sausage Makers' Red Book

Butchers', Packers' and Sausage Makers' Red Bookfor every 100 lbs. of small hams and rub same well into the hams. The standard weight of a tierce is 285 lbs. Do...

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The Tale of the Spinning Wheel

The Tale of the Spinning Wheel The Tale of the Spinning-Wheel is revised and enlarged from a paper read before the Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Connecticut; New England Society in...

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The Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Assistant and Guide

The Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Assistant and Guide. - Containing a Brief History of the Trade. History of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, and Their Application to the Manufacture of Boots and...

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Secrets of meat curing and sausage making

Secrets of meat curing and sausage making - how to cure hams, shoulders, bacon, corned beef, etc., and how to make all kinds of sausage, etc. to comply with the...

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