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Chap.1.Introductory Remarks.Chap.2.The Dignity of the Art and its Relations to Science.Chap.3.Affinity and Chemical Equivalents:—Explanation of.Chap.4.Alkalies.—Lime, Potassa, Soda, Ammonia.Chap.5.Alkalimetry.Chap.6.Acids.—Carbonic, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric, Nitric, Boracic, Acidimetry.Chap.7.Origin and Composition of Fatty Matters.Chap.8.Saponifiable Fats.—Oils of Almond, Olive, Mustard, Beech, Poppy, Rapeseed, Grapeseed; Nut Oil, Linseed Oil, Castor Oil, Palm Oil, (processes for bleaching it;) Coco Butter, Nutmeg Butter, Galum Butter, Athamantine.Chap.9.Adulteration of Oils.Chap.10.Action of Acids upon Oils.Chap.11.Volatile Oils.—The Properties of, and their applicability to the Manufacture of Soaps.Chap.12.Volatile Oils:—Their Origin and Composition; Table of their Specific Gravities.Chap.13.Essential Oils:—The Adulterations of, and the modes of detecting them.Chap.14.Wax:—Its Properties and Composition.Chap.15.Resins:—Their Properties and Composition; Colophony and Gallipot.Chap.16.Animal Fats and Oils:—Lard, Mutton Suet, Beef-tallow, Beef-marrow, Bone-fat, Soap-grease, Oil-lees, Kitchen-stuff, Human-fat, Adipocire, Butter, Fish-oil, Spermaceti, Delphinine, Neats feet Oil.Chap.17.The Constituents of Fats, their Properties and Composition: Stearine, Stearic Acid and Salts; Margarine, Margaric Acid and Salts; Olein, Oleic Acid and Salts; Cetine, Cetylic Acid; Phocenine, Phocenic Acid and Salts; Butyrine, Butyric Acid and Salts; Caproic, Capric Acid; Hircine, Hircic Acid; Cholesterine.Chap.18.Basic Constituents of Fats:—Glycerin, Ethal.Chap.19.Theory of Saponification.Chap.20.Utensils:—Steam Series, Bugadiers or Ley Vats, Soap Frames, Caldrons, &c.Chap.21.The Systemized arrangement for a Soap Factory.Chap.22.Remarks,—Preliminary to the Process for Making Soap.Chap.23.Hard Soaps:—"Cutting Process;" Comparative Value of Oils and Fats as Soap ingredient, with Tables; White, Mottled, Marseilles, Yellow, Yankee Soaps; English Yellow and White Soap, Coco Soap, Palm Soap, Butter Soap, English Windsor Soap, French Windsor Soap, Analyses of Soaps.Chap.24.Process for Making Soap:—Preparation of the Leys, Empatage, Relargage, Coction, Mottling, Cooling.Chap.25.Extemporaneous Soaps:—Lard, Medicinal, "Hawes," "Maquer," and "Darcet's" Soaps.Chap.26.Silicated Soaps:—Flint, Sand, "Dunn's," "Davis's" Soaps.Chap.27.Patent Soaps.—Dextrine, Salinated Soaps, Soap from Hardened Fat.Chap.28.Anderson's Improvements.Chap.29.Soft Soaps:—Process for Making, Crown Soaps, "Savon Vert."Chap.30.The Conversion of Soft Soaps into Hard Soaps.Chap.31.Frauds in Soap Making and Means for their Detection.Chap.32.Earthy Soaps, Marine Soap. Metallic Soaps. Ammoniacal Soap.Chap.33.Soap from Volatile Oils:—Starky's Soap, Action of Alkalies upon Essential Oils.Chap.34. "Savons Acides" or Oleo-acidulated Soap.Chap.35.Toilet Soaps:—Purification of Soaps, Admixed Soap, Cinnamon, Rose, Orange-flower, Bouquet, Benzoin, Cologne, Vanilla, Musk, Naples, Kasan Soaps, Flotant Soaps, Transparent Soaps, Soft Soaps, Shaving Cream; Remarks.Chap.36.Areometers and Thermometers:—their use and value.Chap.37.Weights and Measures.Chap.38.Candles.Chap.39.Illumination.Chap.40.Philosophy of Flame.Chap.41.Raw Material for Candles:—Modes of Rendering Fats, Wilson's Steam Tanks.Chap.42.Wicks:—Their use and action. Cutting Machines.Chap.43.Of the Manufacture of Candles.Chap.44.Dipped Candles:—Improved Machinery for facilitating their Manufacture.Chap.45.Material of Candles:—Process for Improving its Quality.Chap.46.Moulded Candles:—Improved Machinery for facilitating their Manufacture.—"Vaxceme," or Summer Candles.Chap.47.Stearic Acid Candles:—Adamantine and Star Candles.Chap.48.Stearin Candles:—Braconnot's and Morfit's Process.Chap.49.Sperm Candles.Chap.50.Palmine, Palm Wax, Coco Candles.Chap.51.Wax Candles:—Mode of Bleaching the Wax, with drawings of the apparatus requisite therefor; Bougies, Cierges, Flambeaux.Chap.52.Patent Candles:—"Azotized," Movable Wick and Goddard's Candles; Candles on Continuous Wick; Water and Hour Bougies, Perfumed Candles.Chap.53.Concluding Remarks.Vocabulary.
Chap.1.Introductory Remarks.
Chap.2.The Dignity of the Art and its Relations to Science.
Chap.3.Affinity and Chemical Equivalents:—Explanation of.
Chap.4.Alkalies.—Lime, Potassa, Soda, Ammonia.
Chap.5.Alkalimetry.
Chap.6.Acids.—Carbonic, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric, Nitric, Boracic, Acidimetry.
Chap.7.Origin and Composition of Fatty Matters.
Chap.8.Saponifiable Fats.—Oils of Almond, Olive, Mustard, Beech, Poppy, Rapeseed, Grapeseed; Nut Oil, Linseed Oil, Castor Oil, Palm Oil, (processes for bleaching it;) Coco Butter, Nutmeg Butter, Galum Butter, Athamantine.
Chap.9.Adulteration of Oils.
Chap.10.Action of Acids upon Oils.
Chap.11.Volatile Oils.—The Properties of, and their applicability to the Manufacture of Soaps.
Chap.12.Volatile Oils:—Their Origin and Composition; Table of their Specific Gravities.
Chap.13.Essential Oils:—The Adulterations of, and the modes of detecting them.
Chap.14.Wax:—Its Properties and Composition.
Chap.15.Resins:—Their Properties and Composition; Colophony and Gallipot.
Chap.16.Animal Fats and Oils:—Lard, Mutton Suet, Beef-tallow, Beef-marrow, Bone-fat, Soap-grease, Oil-lees, Kitchen-stuff, Human-fat, Adipocire, Butter, Fish-oil, Spermaceti, Delphinine, Neats feet Oil.
Chap.17.The Constituents of Fats, their Properties and Composition: Stearine, Stearic Acid and Salts; Margarine, Margaric Acid and Salts; Olein, Oleic Acid and Salts; Cetine, Cetylic Acid; Phocenine, Phocenic Acid and Salts; Butyrine, Butyric Acid and Salts; Caproic, Capric Acid; Hircine, Hircic Acid; Cholesterine.
Chap.18.Basic Constituents of Fats:—Glycerin, Ethal.
Chap.19.Theory of Saponification.
Chap.20.Utensils:—Steam Series, Bugadiers or Ley Vats, Soap Frames, Caldrons, &c.
Chap.21.The Systemized arrangement for a Soap Factory.
Chap.22.Remarks,—Preliminary to the Process for Making Soap.
Chap.23.Hard Soaps:—"Cutting Process;" Comparative Value of Oils and Fats as Soap ingredient, with Tables; White, Mottled, Marseilles, Yellow, Yankee Soaps; English Yellow and White Soap, Coco Soap, Palm Soap, Butter Soap, English Windsor Soap, French Windsor Soap, Analyses of Soaps.
Chap.24.Process for Making Soap:—Preparation of the Leys, Empatage, Relargage, Coction, Mottling, Cooling.
Chap.25.Extemporaneous Soaps:—Lard, Medicinal, "Hawes," "Maquer," and "Darcet's" Soaps.
Chap.26.Silicated Soaps:—Flint, Sand, "Dunn's," "Davis's" Soaps.
Chap.27.Patent Soaps.—Dextrine, Salinated Soaps, Soap from Hardened Fat.
Chap.28.Anderson's Improvements.
Chap.29.Soft Soaps:—Process for Making, Crown Soaps, "Savon Vert."
Chap.30.The Conversion of Soft Soaps into Hard Soaps.
Chap.31.Frauds in Soap Making and Means for their Detection.
Chap.32.Earthy Soaps, Marine Soap. Metallic Soaps. Ammoniacal Soap.
Chap.33.Soap from Volatile Oils:—Starky's Soap, Action of Alkalies upon Essential Oils.
Chap.34. "Savons Acides" or Oleo-acidulated Soap.
Chap.35.Toilet Soaps:—Purification of Soaps, Admixed Soap, Cinnamon, Rose, Orange-flower, Bouquet, Benzoin, Cologne, Vanilla, Musk, Naples, Kasan Soaps, Flotant Soaps, Transparent Soaps, Soft Soaps, Shaving Cream; Remarks.
Chap.36.Areometers and Thermometers:—their use and value.
Chap.37.Weights and Measures.
Chap.38.Candles.
Chap.39.Illumination.
Chap.40.Philosophy of Flame.
Chap.41.Raw Material for Candles:—Modes of Rendering Fats, Wilson's Steam Tanks.
Chap.42.Wicks:—Their use and action. Cutting Machines.
Chap.43.Of the Manufacture of Candles.
Chap.44.Dipped Candles:—Improved Machinery for facilitating their Manufacture.
Chap.45.Material of Candles:—Process for Improving its Quality.
Chap.46.Moulded Candles:—Improved Machinery for facilitating their Manufacture.—"Vaxceme," or Summer Candles.
Chap.47.Stearic Acid Candles:—Adamantine and Star Candles.
Chap.48.Stearin Candles:—Braconnot's and Morfit's Process.
Chap.49.Sperm Candles.
Chap.50.Palmine, Palm Wax, Coco Candles.
Chap.51.Wax Candles:—Mode of Bleaching the Wax, with drawings of the apparatus requisite therefor; Bougies, Cierges, Flambeaux.
Chap.52.Patent Candles:—"Azotized," Movable Wick and Goddard's Candles; Candles on Continuous Wick; Water and Hour Bougies, Perfumed Candles.
Chap.53.Concluding Remarks.Vocabulary.
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"This truly great work of M. Ricord, who is an American and a native, we believe, of Baltimore, though now the eminent hospital surgeon of Paris, has long been a desideratum in the English language. The immense expense of its publication, and especially the cost of the richly coloured engravings, which are an indispensable accompaniment of the text, has hitherto deterred publishers at home and abroad from its issue. The profession are largely indebted to Dr. Betton, the translator, and Dr. Goddard, who has prepared the work for the press, as also the enterprising publisher, who has brought out this magnificent book, in royal quarto, with its multiplied illustrations, in a style of excellence as respects typography, engraving, and colouring, which will do honour to American art. Of the value of this work it is unnecessary to say more than that it is and must continue to be a standard authority on a most important subject involving the interests of both science and humanity. The publisher deserves the patronage of the whole profession, for placing within the reach of all this noble contribution to our libraries."—N. Y. Medical Gazette.
THEAMERICAN COTTON SPINNER,ANDMANAGERS' AND CARDERS' GUIDE:A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON COTTON SPINNING.Compiled from the Papers of the late Robert H. Baird.In One Volume, Cloth Gilt, Price $1.
"This is a practical age, and it demands practical books. Of this class is the manual before us, addressing itself to a rapidly growing interest among us, and one, upon the prosperity of which depends, in a great measure, the destiny of the South. We have too long committed the fatal error of allowing Northern manufactories to convert our staple into the fabrics we require for use, losing by the process all the expenses of a double transportation, the profits of manufacturing, and sundry incidental costs of interest and exchange. With the increasing attention to manufactures in the South, arises the need of information upon all their appliances and workings, and much that is valuable of this nature is found in the book before us. Mr. Baird was an expert and successful cotton-spinner. His experience and observations are here afforded to his fellow-operatives, combined with the modern improvements in mechanics and methods. No intelligent man at the present day builds without 'counting the cost,' or enters upon a field of labour without a comprehensive knowledge of its capabilities and requirements. To those proposing to erect small factories, or now conducting them, the treatise before us could not fail to be of service, if well studied, and to such we commend it."—Southern Literary Gazette.
"Had we space we might go on to state a number of other equally interesting and important facts. The work from which much of the foregoing is taken, is published by Mr. A. Hart, and was compiled chiefly from the papers of the late Robert H. Baird, well known as an expert cotton-spinner. It is gratifying to see that so respectable a house as that of Mr. Hart has undertaken the publication of books of this kind, for we believe that our operatives should possess a theoretical as well as practical knowledge of their several trades. This work gives the dimensions and speed of machinery, draught and twist calculations, with notices of the most recent improvements. It must prove an invaluable hand-book to the manufacturer."—Germantown Telegraph.
"As the treatise now stands, it is a most complete and practical guide in the spinning of cotton. It gives the dimensions and speed of machinery, draught and twist calculations; together with rules and examples for making changes in the size and number of roving yarn. The work will be found of value, equally by operatives and mill-owners. It is issued in a very neat style."—Arthur's Home Gazette.
"'The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide,' a practical treatise on cotton-spinning, giving the dimensions and speed of machinery, draught and twist calculations, &c., with notices of recent improvements, together with rules and examples for making changes in the size of roving and yarn. This work is compiled from papers of the late Robert H. Baird, well known as an expert cotton-spinner, and will prove of great service to cotton-growers, mill-owners, and cotton-spinners. This book will undoubtedly meet with an extensive sale in the South, where attention is beginning to be turned in earnest to manufacturing as well as growing cotton."—Drawing-room Journal.
"This is one of the most interesting and valuable of the many excellent little treatises on mechanical and manufacturing pursuits which have been published by Mr. Hart. The construction and working of a cotton-factory are thoroughly explained. Buildings, main gearing, water-wheels, picking and spreading machines, cards and carding, drawing-frames, speeders, throstles and mule spinning, are elaborately discussed, and to those engaged in the production of cotton goods, the volume must be exceedingly useful. To political economists and others, who feel an interest in the great progress of our country, the historical and statistical portions of the book will also be of value.
"'In 1770, there were exported to Liverpool from New York three bags of cotton wool; from Virginia and Maryland, four bags; and from North Carolina, three barrels. Last year England paid $71,984,616 to the United States for raw cotton, which sum is exclusive of that paid to other cotton-growing nations. In 1790 the first cotton-mill was erected in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1850 the number of spindles in operation was computed at 2,500,000.' These facts are among the most signal evidences of the unexampled progress and prosperity of the country, and cannot be considered without emotions of pride and gratification."—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
"It is compiled from the papers of the late Robert H. Baird, well known as an expert cotton-spinner, and forms a practical treatise relative to spinning in all its departments and relations, the dimensions and speed of machinery, draught and twist calculations, &c. &c., which cannot but commend itself to the favourable attention of all connected with this important manufacturing interest."—North American.
MANUFACTURE OF STEEL,Containing the Practice and Principles of Working and Making Steel.BY FREDERICK OVERMAN,MINING ENGINEER.
Author of "Manufacture of Iron," &c.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
With Engravings, cloth gilt. Price 75 cents.
"The author of this book is a practical mining engineer, and what he has to say on the subject of which he treats, is therefore entitled to consideration."—Com. Advertiser.
"A valuable and almost indispensable hand-book for all workers in steel and iron, such as blacksmiths, cutlers, die sinkers, and manufacturers of various kinds of hardware. The man of science, as well as the artisan, will find much valuable information in Mr. Overman's Book."—Arthur's Home Gazette.
"Carefully prepared, and therefore well adapted for the purpose. It is illustrated by figures explanatory of apparatus and machinery."—North American.
"A. Hart, Philadelphia, has published 'The Manufacture of Steel,' by Frederick Overman. This work is not only of interest to blacksmiths and workers in steel and iron, but to men of science and art. It is a most thorough book, commencing with forging, and treating the subject throughout in an able manner."—Boston Evening Gazette.
THEMOULDER'S AND FOUNDER'SPOCKET GUIDE.By Frederick Overman,MINING ENGINEER.
WITH FORTY-TWO WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
12mo, 252 pages, cloth gilt. Price 88 cents.
"The moulding of iron for useful purposes is one of the most extensive pursuits of society. Nevertheless, there are comparatively few works which present a clear, intelligible, and simple statement of the branches of this art, so as to be readily understood by all. The present work seems to supply this deficiency."—Scientific American.
"This volume is prepared on the same plan as that on Cotton Spinning, and has a number of wood-engravings. It must prove invaluable to the iron master. It is certainly a book that has long been needed, and we know that it will be extensively circulated."—Germantown Telegraph.
"The 'Moulders and Founder's Pocket Guide,' published by A. Hart, is a treatise on moulding and founding in green sand, dry sand, loam, and cement, the moulding of machine-frames, mill-gear, hollow-ware, ornaments, trinkets, bells, and statues, with receipts for alloys, varnishes, colours, &c., by Frederick Overman, mining engineer. The work is illustrated with forty-two wood-cuts, and it gives plain and practical descriptions of these most useful arts."—Public Ledger.
THELONDON YEAR-BOOK OF FACTSANDSCIENCE, FOR 1851.BY JOHN TIMBS.
Complete in one volume, 326 pages, cloth gilt.PRICE $1.
The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important discoveries and improvements of the past year, in mechanics and the useful arts, natural philosophy, electricity, chemistry, zoology, and botany, geology and geography, meteorology and astronomy. By John Timbs, editor of the 'Arcana of Science and Art,' in one neat volume; price $1.
"It contains a mine of information in matters of Science and Art."—Saturday Gazette.
"There is a great deal of well-digested information in this volume, exhibiting the most important discoveries in the Sciences and Arts, during the past year. In looking over it, one is surprised at the progress making in these branches, and in order to keep up with the age, such a book as this is absolutely necessary."—Evening Bulletin.
"Such a volume commends itself sufficiently to public favour by its title. The importance of possessing it is apparent at a glance, since the knowledge of a single one of these facts, or new discoveries in science and the useful arts, may very possibly be worth in cash to the buyer ten times the price of the book."—Scott's Weekly.
"The 'Year-Book of Facts' is another of Mr. Hart's excellent publications. It is a reprint from the London edition, and exhibits the most important discoveries and improvements of the year 1851, in arts, sciences, and mechanics. It is just the volume to have handy to take up when a few spare moments present themselves, which might otherwise be unimproved."—Boston Evening Gazette.
"The 'Year-Book of Facts' is a work of established character, and American readers will feel indebted to Mr. Hart for reproducing it in a convenient and handsome form, rendering it accessible to all purchasers on this side of the water."—N. American.
STUART'S Dictionary of Architecture.
A Directory of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical, and Mechanical, alphabetically arranged, familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of workmen,BY ROBERT STUART,ARCHITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
Illustrated by one thousand Drawings of Subjects referred to in the work.
Complete in 3 volumes 8vo., bound in two.
"A most excellent work for practical men."