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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Compressed Leather

A new process for using the clippings and refuse from saddlers' and shoemakers' shops is as fol lows: The leather shavings are washed clean, cut up fine, and soaked in water and sulphuric acid, 1 per cent. of the acid being sufficient. The immersion must continue till

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