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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To Make Bronzing for Wood

Grind separately to a fine powder, Prussian blue, chrome yellow, raw umber, lampblack, and clay, and mix in such proportions as will produce a desired dark green hue; then mix with moderately strong glue size.

Chemical Manipulations. the preparation and use of chemicals have al- Some of the operations employed in ready been given at the commencement of this book (see No. 1); but, as the work progressed, it was deemed advisable, for the sake of greater precision, to add further directions for special manipulations, and descriptions of indispensable apparatus. glass funnels furnished with a stop-cock, and

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