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The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Barbering, Hair-dressing, & Peruke-Making Services, & Some Remarks on Wigs of Various Styles.Richard Gamble, barber and perukemaker of Williamsburg in the middle years of the eighteenth century, appears to have remained a bachelor all...
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Lightning Rod ConferenceLightning Rod Conference - Report of the Delegates from the Following Societies, Viz.: Meteorological Society, Royal Institute of British Architects, Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, Physical Society. With a Code of Rules for the Erection of Lightning Conductors; and Various AppendicesAlthough France...
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A History of AeronauticsA History of AeronauticsAlthough successful heavier-than-air flight is less than two decades old, and successful dirigible propulsion antedates it by a very short period, the mass of experiment and accomplishment renders any one-volume history of the subject a matter of selection. In addition to...
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The Knitting BookThe Knitting BookIt is usually considered necessary to introduce works of any description, however trifling, with a few prefatory remarks. Happily the days of dedication are nearly at their close, and an author has now only to direct the attention of the reader to...
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The Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Life & Times and of His CraftIron seemeth a simple metal, but in its nature are many mysteries, wrote Joseph Glanvill, a seventeenth-century English churchman. To the contrary, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, two centuries later,...
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The Story of Paper-makingThe Story of Paper-making - An account of paper-making from its earliest known record down to the present timeIt is a rare privilege to stand as we do at the meeting-point of the centuries, bidding a reluctant farewell to the old, while simultaneously we...
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The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts Commonly Engaged in the Making & Using of It.Once upon a time there lived in France a poet-bureaucrat by the name of Charles Perrault, who wrote...
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The Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas, Volume XX, No. 18, May 2, 1908The Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas, Volume XX, No. 18, May 2, 1908 - Devoted to the Conversion, Transmission and Distribution of EnergyThe large and deep-lying oil-sand lakes and subterranean gas works, commencing with the southern rim of the Santa Maria Valley and...
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My Knitting Book (Second Series)My Knitting Book (Second Series)It has been justly observed that, an art cannot be taught but by its proper terms. In the art of knitting, various terms have been employedwhether correctly, or not, it is here needless to inquireto designate the same simple process....
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The Puering, Bating and Drenching of SkinsThe Puering, Bating & Drenching of SkinsThe present volume is the outcome of a desire to preserve the numerous notes which I have made during over twenty years work at the practical and scientific study of bating. It has been my wish to complete...
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An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk CoastAn Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast - With a Design to Arrest Its Further DepredationsMany persons may consider it a remarkable circumstance, that an individual, whose profession requires his leisure time to be devoted to the acquirement...
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Darstellende Geometrie des GeländesDarstellende Geometrie des Geländes - und verwandte Anwendungen der Methode der kotierten ProjektionenDie Sammlung, die in einzeln kuflichen Bndchen in zwangloser Folge herausgegeben wird, bezweckt, allen denen, die Interesse an den mathematisch-physikalischen Wissenschaften haben, es in angenehmer Form zu ermglichen, sich ber das gemeinhin...
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The Silversmith in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Silversmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Life & Times, & of His CraftThrough many years before the Revolution and for a time early in the war, James Craig and James Geddy the younger were probably Williamsburgs foremost craftsmen in the...
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Southern Derringers of the Mississippi ValleySouthern Derringers of the Mississippi ValleyThis booklet is not intended to be the last word on Southern Derringers. I suspect that it is merely intended to be a guide for someone who has more patience than I to do the research work that is...
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The Miller in Eighteenth-Century VirginiaThe Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia - An Account of Mills & the Craft of Milling, as Well as a Description of the Windmill near the Palace in WilliamsburgThe reader of this account, being of open mind and charitable disposition, as good men and women...
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The Story of American AviationThe Story of American AviationIt is difficult to believe that, just a little over thirty years ago, I was a high-school student watching the pilots at the Wright Brothers exhibition of the worlds first flying machine. That machine weighed about eight hundred pounds. Its...
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Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic ServiceLetters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic ServiceWill you aid me in an attempt to benefit a most useful, a most important, and yet a much neglected portion of our fellow citizens? I can accomplish little without your aid; with it, I trust...
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Acid Rain and Our Nation's Capital: A Guide to Effects on Buildings and MonumentsAcid Rain and Our Nation's Capital: A Guide to Effects on Buildings and MonumentsWhen polluted air mixes with rain, snow, and fog, acid precipitation forms. This acidity has caused people to worry about the environment; some reports show that acid rain has affected lakes,...
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Lighthouses and LightshipsLighthouses and Lightships - A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS: A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THEIR MODE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ORGANIZATION. BY W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS, AUTHOR OF BURIED CITIES OF CAMPANIA, QUEEN OF...
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Luncheons: A Cook's Picture BookLuncheons: A Cook's Picture BookIt is a book of illustrated receipts, a cooks picture-book, intended to be very useful in the way of suggestion. It is arranged so that housekeepers may more readily make up a menu, often a difficult task, or may easily...
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