Timber and Wood Waste
Physical and Chemical Properties of Timber — Composition of the Vegetable Bodies — Chief Elements — M. Fremy’s Researches — Elementary Organs of Plants and especially of Forests — Different Parts of Wood Anatomically and Chemically Considered — General Properties of Wood — Description of the Different Kinds of Wood — Principal Essences with Caducous Leaves — Coniferous Resinous Trees — Division of the Useful Varieties of Timber in the Different Countries of the Globe — European Timber — African Timber — Asiatic Timber — American Timber — Timber of Oceania — Forests — General Notes as to Forests; their Influence — Opinions as to Sylviculture — Improvement of Forests — Unwooding and Rewooding — Preservation of Forests — Exploitation of Forests — Damage caused to Forests — Different Alterations — The Preservation of Timber — Generalities — Causes and Progress of Deterioration — History of Different Proposed Processes — Dessication — Superficial Carbonisation of Timber — Processes by Immersion — Generalities as to Antiseptics Employed — Injection Processes in Closed Vessels — The Boucherie System, Based upon the Displacement of the Sap — Processes for Making Timber Uninflammable — Applications of Timber — Generalities — Working Timber — Paving — Timber for Mines — Railway Traverses — Accessory Products — Gums — Works of M. Fremy — Resins — Barks — Tan — Application of Cork — The Application of Wood to Art and Dyeing — Different Applications of Wood — Hard Wood — Distillation of Wood — Pyroligneous Acid — Oil of Wood — Distillation of Resins — Index.
General Remarks on the Utilisation of Sawdust — Employment of Sawdust as Fuel, with and without Simultaneous Recovery of Charcoal and the Products of Distillation — Manufacture of Oxalic Acid from Sawdust — Process with Soda Lye; Thorn’s Process; Bohlig’s Process — Manufacture of Spirit (Ethyl Alcohol) from Wood Waste — Patent Dyes (Organic Sulphides, Sulphur Dyes, or Mercapto Dyes) — Artificial Wood and Plastic Compositions from Sawdust — Production of Artificial Wood Compositions for Moulded Decorations — Employment of Sawdust for Blasting Powders and Gunpowders — Employment of Sawdust for Briquettes — Employment of Sawdust in the Ceramic Industry and as an Addition to Mortar — Manufacture of Paper Pulp from Wood — Casks — Various Applications of Sawdust and Wood Refuse — Calcium Carbide — Manure — Wood Mosaic Plaques — Bottle Stoppers — Parquetry — Fire-lighters — Carborundum — The Production of Wood Wool — Bark — Index.