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Tube, Train, Tram, and Car or, Up-to-date locomotionTube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotionTHE object of this book is to give the public a general idea as to the progress now being made in the application of electricity for transport purposes, and it was intended that Sir William Preece should...
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The Telephone: A lecture entitled Researches in Electric TelephonyThe Telephone: A lecture entitled Researches in Electric TelephonyThe President: Gentlemen, the Council of the Society of Telegraph Engineers felt that they were sure of doing what the members would consider right in summoning a special meeting for the two-fold purpose of giving a...
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The Ethics of DietThe Ethics of Diet - A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh EatingAT the present day, in all parts of the civilised world, the once orthodox practices of cannibalism and human sacrifice universally are regarded with astonishment and horror. The history...
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The Art of Paper-MakingThe Art of Paper-Making - A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Paper from Rags, Esparto, Straw, and Other Fibrous Materials, Including the Manufacture of Pulp from Wood FibreIn the present volume, while describing the various operations involved in the manufacture of paper, the...
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Perfumes and Their PreparationPerfumes and Their Preparation - Containing complete directions for making handkerchief perfumes, smelling-salts, sachets, fumigating pastils; preparations for the care of the skin, the mouth, the hair; cosmetics, hair dyes, and other toilet articlesThe great progress which the art of perfumery has made during...
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and HealthkeeperMiss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper - Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessMarketingBeefDifferent Cuts, etc.VealMuttonPorkPoultryFishShell-fishCare of MeatsTo salt down BeefTo cleanse Calfs Head and FeetTo prepare RennetTo salt down FishTo try out LardMolasses-cured HamsBrine...
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Canoe and Camp CookeryCanoe and Camp Cookery - A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and OutersA book in the writer's possession, entitled "Camp Cookery," contains the following recipe: "Boiled Green Corn.Boil twenty-five minutes, if very young and tender. As it grows older it requires a...
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FirebrandsFirebrandsEvery year fire destroys an enormous amount of property in the United States. Of this great loss by which our country is made just so much poorer, for property destroyed by fire is gone forever and cannot be replaced, a large proportion is due...
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Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil EngineerLife of Robert Stevenson, Civil EngineerThe addresses made to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Institution of Civil Engineers, at the opening meetings of the session1851, contained obituary notices of Robert Stevenson. The late Alan Stevenson, his eldest son, also wrote a short...
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The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao PreparationsThe Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao PreparationsThe object of this work is to furnish a source of information and advice for those who are interested in the branch of industry to which it relates. The author of this treatise has therefore endeavoured not...
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I Go A-MarketingI Go A-MarketingBEFORE dipping into this book very far, reader (pray note that I cozen you with neither gentle nor dear), allow me to suggest that you familiarize yourself with the spirit of Emerson, who has allowed that the truly consistent person changes his...
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The Golden Rule Cook Book: 600 recipes for meatless dishesThe Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishesThe arranging of this help for those who are seeking to obey the call to a higher humanitarianism, which is put forth by non-flesh-eating men and women, has been a labour of love: the...
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A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Cure of Dry Rot in TimberA Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Cure of Dry Rot in Timber - With remarks on the means of preserving wood from destruction by sea worms, beetles, ants, etc.In preparing this treatise on Dry Rot, the author has endeavoured to place in...
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Trains at WorkTrains at WorkSam is the fireman on a big freight locomotive. Like lots of people who work on trains, Sam belongs to a family of railroaders. His father was a locomotive engineer. His grandfather was one, too. And, long ago, grandmother was an op....
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Machines at WorkMachines at WorkYou could do everything that the machines in this book do. For some of the jobs, of course, youd have to get friends to help you. But people have always been able to work and build wonderful things, using just their muscles....
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A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber ProductsA Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber ProductsThe author was asked in 1908 by the Lynn Commission on Industrial Education to make an investigation of European shoe schools and to assist the Commission in preparing a course of study for the proposed shoe...
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The Petrol EngineThe Petrol Engine - A Text-book dealing with the Principles of Design and Construction, with a Special Chapter on the Two-stroke EngineThis book deals with principles. There are many books which give a descriptive account of existing types of engines, but my object in...
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The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic ManagementThe English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management - Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who...
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How It Flies; or, The Conquest of the AirHow It Flies; or, The Conquest of the Air - The Story of Man's Endeavors to Fly and of the Inventions by Which He Has SucceededIn these pages, by means of simple language and suitable pictures, the author has told the story of the...
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The Art of Glass-BlowingThe Art of Glass-Blowing - Plain Instruction for the Making of Chemical and Philosophical Instruments Which are Formed of GlassThe flame of a lamp, or candle, condensed and directed by a current of air, is exceedingly useful in a great number of arts. The...
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