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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Dark Brass for Castings

Melt together 90 parts copper, 7 parts zinc, 2 parts producing the beautiful dead black so much tin, and 1 part lead. The color will be still admired in optical instruments, and which deeper by using 2 parts less of zinc, and 1 part was so long kept a secret by the French. more each of copper and tin.

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