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 Temper Gravers

These may be tempered in the same way as drills; or the red hot instrument may be pressed into a piece of lead, in which a hole about 1/2 an inch deep has been cut to receive the graver; the lead melting around and enclosing it will give it an excellent temper.

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