Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Calotype Paper

The paper is poli. The plates are to be rubbed hard and saturated in 1 ounce water, containing 20 evenly with balls of cotton-wool dipped in grains iodide of potassium, and dried. Then the mixture. When dry, rub again with a made sensitive by soaking in 1 ounce distilled clean ball of cotton, and dust off the back water containing 20 grains nitrate of silver and edges with a clean hog's-hair brush. and drachm glacial acetic acid, and dried in a dark room.

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