The curiosities of industry and the applied sciences.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Industrial arts; Manufactures; Technology
Table of contents: title: 1.  Glass and its manufacture.-  2.  Iron and its manufacture.- 3.  Wood and its applications.-  4.  Calculating and registering machines.-  5.  India rubber and gutta percha.-  6.  Industrial applications of electricity.-  7.  Gold: in the mine, the mint, and the workshop.-  8.  Paper: its applications and its novelties.-  9.  Printing: its modern varieties.-  10.  Cotton and flax: a contrast.-  11.  Corn and bread: what they owe to machinery.-  12.  A ship, in the nineteenth century.-  13.  Fire and light:  contrivances for their production.-  14. Wool and silk, fur and feathers.-  15.  The chemistry of manufactures.- 16.  Steam-power and water-power.