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Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for AmateursWood-working for Beginners: A Manual for AmateursThe aim of this book is to suggest to amateurs of all ages many things which they can profitably make of wood, and to start them in the way to work successfully. It is hoped that, in the...
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Carpentry and WoodworkCarpentry and WoodworkThere is a period in a boy's life, roughly speaking between the ages of ten and sixteen, when his interests and energy turn in the direction of making things. It may be called the creative period, and with many of us it...
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Detection of the Common Food AdulterantsDetection of the Common Food AdulterantsBecause of the recent agitation of the pure food question throughout the country, health officers, food-inspectors, and chemistry teachers and students are constantly called upon to test the purity of various foods. And this usually involves nothing more than...
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Graining and MarblingGraining and Marbling - A Series of Practical Treatises on Material, Tools and Appliances Used; General Operations; Preparing Oil Graining Colors; Mixing; Rubbing; Applying Distemper Colors; Wiping Out; Penciling; The Use of Crayons; Review of Woods; The Graining of Oak, Ash, Cherry, Satinwood, Mahogany,...
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The Laurel Health CookeryThe Laurel Health Cookery - A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive WaysSeveral years ago as I was leaving Washington after giving a course of demonstration lectures in hygienic cookery, I was impressed with...
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Our Knowledge Box or, Old Secrets and New DiscoveriesOur Knowledge Box; or, Old Secrets and New Discoveries.This is the greatest book ever published on these subjects, and contains plain and correct rules for foretelling what is going to happen. It treats on the art of telling fortunes by the hands or Palmistry,...
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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 - Volume LIV, No. 2, December 1898In 1880 it happened to fall to me to make a forecast of the very great reduction in the price of wheat in Great Britain, which could then be predicated on the...
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Machinery's Reference Series Number 21Measuring ToolsWhile every mechanic makes use of the standards of length every day, and uses tools graduated according to accepted standards when performing even the smallest operation in the shop, there are comparatively few who know the history of the development of the standard...
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Candy-Making at HomeCandy-Making at Home - Two hundred ways to make candy with home flavors and professional finishWe find it quite possible to make just as delicious candy at home as can be bought of the most famous manufacturers. Of course there are a few kinds...
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The Natural History of ClayThe Natural History of ClayBoth as raw materials and in the form of pottery, bricks, tiles, terra-cotta and many other articles of use and ornament, clays are amongst the most important rock products. Yet the origin of the substances we know as 'clay,' the...
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Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878Our engraving, which represents a portion of the park at the Paris Exhibition grounds, needs little mention beyond that it is one of those delightful retreats so refreshing to the weary visitor, who, tired out...
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Cakes & AleCakes & Ale - A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veraciousA long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him: Give, oh! give me the subject...
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Almacen de recetas escogidas y probadasAlmacen de recetas escogidas y probadas - ó sea tratado de jarabes, aguas destiladas, licores por destilación, vinos por imitación y heladosTomareis dos libras almendras dulces, una onza de amargas, las mondareis en agua hirviendo, las machacareis dentro un almirez de mrmol, rocindolas con...
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Shaving Made Easy: What the Man Who Shaves Ought to KnowShaving Made Easy: What the Man Who Shaves Ought to KnowThe object of this little book is to furnish clear and full information about the art of shaving. There are few men who do not experience more or less difficulty in shaving themselves, and...
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, Start/End PapersTransactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, Start/End Papers - The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad Edited by the Secretary, under the direction of the Committee on Publications. Reprints from this publication, which is copyrighted, may...
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The Expert Maid-ServantThe Expert Maid-ServantThe most common method of engaging a servant is through an intelligence office. There are nearly as many different kinds of these as there are types of domestics who patronize them. An office with a high standing should be selected. This is...
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Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical MenGetting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical MenSome years ago the author published a small book entitled Practical Mining, designed specially for the use of those engaged in the always fascinating, though not as invariably profitable, pursuit of Getting Gold. Of this ten thousand...
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Photography in the Studio and in the FieldPhotography in the Studio and in the Field - A Practical Manual Designed as a Companion Alike to the Professional and the Amateur PhotographerThe most important improvement in photographic processes that has been introduced since Maynard first made collodion, and Archer discovered its adaptability...
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Standard Paper-Bag CookeryStandard Paper-Bag CookeryThe endeavor has been to make the directions for "Paper-bag Cookery" so clear and concise that even the inexperienced housekeeper may not be deterred from trying this new-old way of cooking foods delicately, digestibly, economically. For the very large family or boarding...
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A New Century of InventionsA New Century of Inventions - Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic LifeIt has been my lot, during a long and eventful passage through life, to have my attention forcibly drawn to a multitude of Mechanical...
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