A technical chemist’s handbook to the industries that turned hides, bones and fish into useful products. It covers raw materials, the manufacture of skin and bone glue, bleaching and testing, gelatine and isinglass, animal charcoal and phosphorus, and recipes for workshop and office cements, pastes and mucilages, edited and enlarged by William T. Brannt.
A detailed record of nineteenth-century industrial chemistry for historians of technology and craftspeople. Download the free EPUB.