The Practical Assistant, and Workshop Companion: A Treasury of Useful Information Relating to the Arts and Sciences of Everyday Life, Containing ... Data Tables, and Hints for the Factory and t - Softcover

Phin, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332347339 ISBN 13: 9781332347339

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Practical Assistant, and Workshop Companion: A Treasury of Useful Information Relating to the Arts and Sciences of Everyday Life, Containing Useful and Reliable Processes, Recipes, Wrinkles, Methods, Rules, Data Tables, and Hints for the Factory and the Household, the Shop and the Farm

In doing this he has received aid from some of the best practical writers in the country, and feels assured that the matter now given will prove as thorough, as reliable, and as clearly expressed as that which preceded it. So that the work now forms a compact and convenient cyclopedia of informa tion for everyday life.

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Excerpt from The Practical Assistant, and Workshop Companion: A Treasury of Useful Information Relating to the Arts and Sciences of Everyday Life, Containing Useful and Reliable Processes, Recipes, Wrinkles, Methods, Rules, Data Tables, and Hints for the Factory and the Household, the Shop and the Farm

The following pages have been prepared with very great care, the chief aim being to give none but recipes which will not disappoint those who attempt to use them. Several of the recipes here given are original, the formula? having been worked out or improved by the author after much labor and experiment. In searching for really good formulæ, we have been astonished at the errors which have crept into many of our standard books of recipes. For example, in one case the two separate operations of a well-known process for staining wood are given as distinct, and, of course useless recipes! In a seemingly favorite recipe for a washing fluid, the reader is directed to add vinegar to the ammonia employed, thus entirely neutralizing it. In the same way we find a recipe for transferring printed engravings to wood, in which the alkali (potash) is neutralized with vitriol! We suppose that in the last case, the author of this recipe thought that two strong liquids must be better than one, forgetting or not knowing the fact that one destroys the effect of the other. A very slight knowledge of technological science would have enabled the compilers of these books to avoid such blunders. In addition to these defects, however, most of our large books of recipes contain so much that is entirely useless to the practical man, and so many mere repetitions of the same recipe in different language and terms, that their cost is greatly increased while their value instead of being enhanced, is actually lessened.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1332347339
• ISBN 13: 9781332347339
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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