Book of Inventions
name: label: Collection Author
content: Wurtz, Henry, 1828-1910
topic: label: Topic
content: Inventions -- United States -- History -- 19th century
setName: label: See more items in
content: Henry Wurtz Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1861
container: label: Container
content: Box 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0006, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Daybooks
label: Type
content: Letters (correspondence)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Daybooks -- 1850-1860
label: Genre/Form
content: Letters (correspondence) -- 1860-1870
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "The Book of Inventions, Made by Henry Wurtz from about 1850, Compilation and Arrangement, from Scattered Notes, Commenced in September 1861, by H.W."  This is a day book that includes brief descriptions of various subjects in the chemical arts.  It includes a subject index.  Slipped inside is a letter from Wurtz to Joseph Henry, dated November 9, 1861, relating to "warlike inventions."

The box also contains four copies of the book.